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[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/17/2012 02:34 AM, Matt Richardson wrote:
> My only thought is that Ctrl+W is not intuitive for close.
> Since any letter might represent an appropriate word in one language but
> not another, I wonder if delete might not be more intuitive and
> international?

Do you really mean the Delete key?

Without modifier, it deletes whatever is currently selected. In text, 
with no selection, it deletes the character after the cursor; with Ctrl 
it deletes the word after the cursor.

It looks like Alt- and Shift-Delete are not in common use, but they are 
too close to commands that delete stuff and hence are not easy or even 
impossible to recover from, if the user does not understand what just 
happened.


(Shortcuts for commands that exist in many applications should be 
configured on a system level. It should be feasible to change the 
shortcut for printing or the shortcut for select-all. Optimal shortcuts 
depend on the set of commands actually used, their relative frequency, 
position on the keyboard in the context of one hand on the mouse vs both 
hands on the keyboard or a user having only one functioning hand ...)


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