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Exactly, it means you stay in your typing flow. Before -- after hammering Backspace 12 times to delete a word -- I'd have forgotten what I was actually trying to say.
Also, it's really satisfying to see a typo just disappear, like you're swatting it away.
I love all those entire word select shortcuts. They save so much time.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
What I like most about CTRL + Backspace is that it works all over the place -- from Word to Google Docs. In theory my mum could use it (if she could be bothered).
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
On the Mac I use for work, in iTerm it deletes the previous letter, same as ^H. In this textarea I'm using to type this reply it does... nothing.
That's partially just down to it the oddities of MacOS - a lot of keyboard shortcuts are weird on Mac, like ctrl/alt left and right arrow, or ctrl-R or alt-dot. You have to go through a process of setting it up on a new machine, because most of these are broken out the box.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
For me, it was discovering that Ctrl + Backspace deletes an entire word. It completely changed how I type.
I was so excited -- I told everyone I knew, thinking I would change the world ...
Only one person cared. But he still thanks me to this day.
Hopefully yours is better than mine!
I discovered it too! And now I use it a lot. Rather than correcting a mispelled word, I just delete it entirely and re-write it. It's way faster.
Also: CTRL+SHIFT+Left Arrow will select an entire word and CTRL+Left arrow will jump.
Exactly, it means you stay in your typing flow. Before -- after hammering Backspace 12 times to delete a word -- I'd have forgotten what I was actually trying to say.
Also, it's really satisfying to see a typo just disappear, like you're swatting it away.
I love all those entire word select shortcuts. They save so much time.
Psst. Have you tried vim?
Ha! Not for a loooong time. Maybe I'm ready.
What I like most about CTRL + Backspace is that it works all over the place -- from Word to Google Docs. In theory my mum could use it (if she could be bothered).
On the Mac I use for work, in iTerm it deletes the previous letter, same as
^H. In this textarea I'm using to type this reply it does... nothing.That's partially just down to it the oddities of MacOS - a lot of keyboard shortcuts are weird on Mac, like ctrl/alt left and right arrow, or ctrl-R or alt-dot. You have to go through a process of setting it up on a new machine, because most of these are broken out the box.
Ah, I'm not a Mac user, so that's good to know. According to @achu it's ⌘ + Delete on a Mac.
Yeah, that does nothing on mine either :)
Oh dear. This might be why I failed to change the world.
on MacOS its OPTION + DELETE
As I mentioned, that does nothing on my Mac.
Wow, I didn't know that. I used CTRL + Shift + Left + Backspace 🤦♂️ Thanks for that!
Happy to help!
I love that too, although I too often forget it's there.
On Mac, that's
⌘ + Deletethat does teh whole line. option+delete does a word.