[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #7674: Add backward-kill-word to BTextView
- From: "GeneralMaximus" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:25:46 -0000
#7674: Add backward-kill-word to BTextView
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Reporter: GeneralMaximus | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Interface Kit | Version:
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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A backward-kill-word shortcut in BTextView would be a welcome addition.
The current method of killing the previous word by holding Shift, then
pressing Ctrl+Left to select the word, and finally pressing Backspace is
cumbersome.
Since Ctrl+Backspace is already mapped to Delete, the attached patch makes
Option+Backspace kill the previous word. But there's a consistency issue
here: moving between words is done using Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right so,
logically, Ctrl+Backspace should kill the previous word. Instead, I've
attached an additional patch that changes Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right to
Option+Left and Option+Right. Now all text movement shortcuts are accessed
through the Option key. I was not sure if this was a good idea, so I made
a separate patch.
Description of patches:
1. backward-kill-word.diff: makes Option+Backspace kill the previous word.
2. backward-kill-word-and-backward-word.diff: makes Option+Backspace kill
the previous word. Additionally, Option+Left Arrow and Option+Right Arrow
are used to move back or forward by words. This is a change from the
previous way of moving between words, which was Ctrl+Left Arrow and
Ctrl+Right Arrow.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7674>
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