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 ...)
