What command does Alt-Backspace do? It seems to undo largish swaths of things, but interferes with the real undo, leaving it's handiwork un-undoable. Actually, it's not obvious what it's exactly doing. I hit Alt-Backspace occasionally by accident because it's the Emacs and Bash shell command for "backspace over previous word".
It would be nice if it did nothing when I accidentally hit it (like how Alt-Delete does nothing).
---John
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:41:08 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
What command does Alt-Backspace do? It seems to undo largish swaths of things, but interferes with the real undo, leaving it's handiwork un-undoable. Actually, it's not obvious what it's exactly doing. I hit Alt-Backspace occasionally by accident because it's the Emacs and Bash shell command for "backspace over previous word".
According to the Scintilla source([1] line 127) it triggers an undo action inside Scintilla which in fact interfere with Geany's undo system. I think we should remove this keybinding because we already have a keybinding for undo. If nobody will complain, it will be removed.
It would be nice if it did nothing when I accidentally hit it (like how Alt-Delete does nothing).
My window manager(xfwm4 from Xfce) eats Alt-Delete and remove workspaces. Good to know that, I was quite surprised while testing multiple times Alt-Delete ;-).
[1] http://scintilla.cvs.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scintilla/src/KeyMap.cxx?revi...
Regards, Enrico
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:54:51 +0200, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:41:08 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
What command does Alt-Backspace do? It seems to undo largish swaths of things, but interferes with the real undo, leaving it's handiwork un-undoable. Actually, it's not obvious what it's exactly doing. I hit Alt-Backspace occasionally by accident because it's the Emacs and Bash shell command for "backspace over previous word".
According to the Scintilla source([1] line 127) it triggers an undo action inside Scintilla which in fact interfere with Geany's undo system. I think we should remove this keybinding because we already have a keybinding for undo. If nobody will complain, it will be removed.
Removed in SVN r2009.
Regards, Enrico