by lelf
If that was not enough:
^Q is M-x quoted-insert (it’s a standard thing, no need for any hacks). So, say, if you remapped ^F to Emacs’s meaning, then ^Q^F will provide you standard Apple’s ƒ.
^U is universal-argument, but it’s used here only for repeats. So
C-u 3 C-q M-v is √√√,C-u C-u M-K (or C-u C-u C-q M-K if remapped M-k) is .Kill ring. Yay! Add "^y" = "yankAndSelect:" to DefaultKeyBinding.dict. With that, the first C-y will yank, following strokes will do yank-pop. Not quite the same way as in Emacs, but I’m surprised it’s there at all.
You will need to run these commands for repeats and kill ring:
defaults write -g NSRepeatCountBinding -string "^u"
defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -int 8