#TIL that if you have a syntax error in your $HOME/.config/mcomix/keybindings.conf file, it will fail to load (as expected), and MComix will log an error (also as expected) on startup, something like:
10:42:33 [MainThread] ERROR: Couldn't load keybindings: Illegal trailing comma before end of array: line 121 column 17 (char 1779)
It will then operate with the default keybindings. (Again, as expected.)
What wasn't expected is that, if you then quit MComix, it will save back the current (read: defaulted) keybindings to that same file path that it didn't load them from, wiping out your invalid-syntax configuration and implicitly resetting all keybindings to defaults permanently.
Seems like, if a file $HOME/.config/mcomix/keybindings.conf exists but the keybindings weren't loaded from it, then MComix should do one of these things with it:
$HOME/.config/mcomix/keybindings.conf file should be moved out of the way when it can't be read (renamed to $HOME/.config/mcomix/keybindings.conf.bad,, perhaps?), rather than automatically overwriting it.