I'm not too experienced with Linux, but now I opened up the Linux GUI on my Sage VM, and tried a bunch of text editors and a web browser. They all respect ctrl-backspace as deleting a word. Why does Sage do differently? Why? Is this the right place to try and change the accepted use of ctrl-backspace? Maybe we should use ctrl-w for copy and ctrl-z for paste, just for kicks?
Ram. On Nov 22, 8:58 pm, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > ram.rac...@gmail.com wrote: > > It's accepted, at least on Windows, that ctrl-backspace deletes a word > > (And sometimes a bunch of spaces/returns around it.) This is true in > > IDEs, and actually in every text area in almost every program I can > > think of. > > Somewhat interesting back-story: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/10/11/5395501.aspx > > As a result, most Windows programs include this functionality by way of > the default Windows edit controls. Exceptions do occur in cases where a > custom edit control is used (i.e. IDEs), but for the most part, it works. > > On Linux, this is an Emacs keybinding that has found its way into at > least three of the major toolkits, GTK, QT, and Wx. I don't know whether > it was inspired by Emacs, or simply meant to mimic the Windows edit control. > > On the web, CKEditor and TinyMCE include it per user request. > > On Mac, who knows. > > It could be worse. As an Emacs user, attempting to backspace over a word > typically results in bolding the entire document and printing it down > the hall while I'm helpless to intervene because the File->Save As menu > has opened. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
