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Textarea, what is ctrl+w should be ctrl+backspace, but that wont work, why? #5134

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So I had small look around and found
#3440
I skimmed it and i am not entirely sure if its totally relevant, but it probably is. To my problem:

When you use a word processor, editor or any input under Linux or Windows, generally ctrl+backspace works as delete_word_left which is actually a function bound to ctrl+w for text area widgets. I was about to make a pull request for this obvious oversight but you guys already had implemented the function. So I thought its a me problem and I just create "TextArea2" for personal use, but it seems, ctrl+backspace is in general not a key binding that is going to work. I assume the problem is deeper.

Since I learned about ctrl+backspace its the most used feature in any text editor, just so handy to delete the entire word and rewritting instead of backspacing. I know this is a console emulator and I only tested Konsole and xterm, and yet, I would really love to have the familiar keybinding instead of the rather unintuitive ctrl+w.

I am mostly looking for info as a quick delve dredged nothing up. Thanks for the awesome work!

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