One of the few times I’ve been able to appreciate their eccentricities was when using Ctrl+w to delete a word in a shell environment in a remote desktop environment inside a web browser. I pressed the key combination out of habit, cringed as I realized I’d just closed the tab and would have to reauthenticate several times to get back to it, then was delighted to realize I hadn’t closed the tab because I hadn’t passed command+w.
One of the few times I’ve been able to appreciate their eccentricities was when using Ctrl+w to delete a word in a shell environment in a remote desktop environment inside a web browser. I pressed the key combination out of habit, cringed as I realized I’d just closed the tab and would have to reauthenticate several times to get back to it, then was delighted to realize I hadn’t closed the tab because I hadn’t passed command+w.
Putting all keyboard shortcuts on ctrl is pretty brain dead when there are so many other modifiers available.
This isn’t even a new idea or anything. The Amiga had its own key for that purpose and lots of Unix machines did as well like “meta”.
Just the kind of insight I would expect from the best boyfriend in the world.