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Author Topic: CTRL+Backspace should delete previous word, not last word  (Read 6427 times)

herojoker

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As mentioned in the subject using CTRL+Backspace should delete the word which is on the left side of the cursor, not the last word in the entered line. Unfortunately FARR does the latter.

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Re: CTRL+Backspace should delete previous word, not last word
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 03:16 PM »
when would there be a difference? if the cursor is in the middle of the line? when would that happen in practice?

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Re: CTRL+Backspace should delete previous word, not last word
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 04:33 PM »
I could imagine it being useful when used with plugins that take several "words" as input and one wants to delete one that is somewhere in the middle

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Re: CTRL+Backspace should delete previous word, not last word
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 04:42 PM »
you can just double click on any word to select it, then delete to delete it.

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Re: CTRL+Backspace should delete previous word, not last word
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2009, 01:13 AM »
I thought FARR was for "keyboard maniacs" ;) Well, you can do Ctrl+Shift+Left and then Delete, so fair enough.

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Re: CTRL+Backspace should delete previous word, not last word
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2009, 06:40 AM »
Maybe there are workarounds but does this imply that this (unusual) behaviour should be ignored (I won't elaborate on why I don't like the workarounds...)?
Currently I can't say in which specific situations it happens that my cursor is in the middle of the input line, but sometimes it happens (in general everytime I want to correct a word).

It would really be nice if this were fixed  :Thmbsup: