 
            why don't you rebind them?
Because we did not know how to :). Of course, we will find out, but it just was not obvious enough to get it done until now.
You override #doItReceiver (to bind self) and #doItContext (to bind temps) in the model of your pluggable widget.
I do not think we need something that is global. All we want is a way to get a text widget without getting shortcuts built in :).
What I love about Squeak/Pharo is that the shortcut bindings, for example to browse a class, work in any text input box. This makes me highly efficient to program and annoys me extremely for example in VisualWorks. Being able to customize the bindings would be great, however I think the defaults should be preserved.
Lukas