Comments on: Who Invented The Shortcut Ctrl+W?

By: Laurence

Laurence — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:27:34 +0000

Dude, what are you whinging about? Turn them off if you don’t like them. And if you can’t turn them off, buy a Mac, which does let you turn any or all keyboard shortcuts off.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:45:42 +0000

re-reading all the comments.

I’m now absolutely certain that all this makes no sense.. :)

By: MD

MD — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:07:35 +0000

Ctrl+Q is quit, which makes sense. Q for quit. Then they wanted to close tabs, so they picked the letter next to Q, so W.

By: d

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:06:08 +0000

@Juuso: CTRL + T opens a new tab so, adding the SHIFT modifier in there to change open into reopen sort of makes sense. Sort of. In some parallel reality or something maybe.

@Ryan: In the nano text editor CTRL + W is the search (Where is) function.

By: Ryan Fox

Ryan Fox — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:39:52 +0000

In emacs, Ctrl-w is “cut”. Emacs has sort of ruined me… I keep doing Ctrl-s to try to search and end up saving.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:49:20 +0000

d: okay. who the hell invented that?

By: d

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:59:18 +0000

FYI: CTRL+SHIFT+T will reopen a tab in newer versions of Firefox.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:38:17 +0000

And here you are again: maybe *that’s* a sign ;)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:22:52 +0000

I just tested this and it closed your blog. Maybe that’s a sign… ;-p

By: Lumooja

Lumooja — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:51:07 +0000

Well, look at it this way: as a hardcore FPS gamer, your fingers go automatically over the WASD keys anyway when you use a keyboard, no matter in which business application you might be :)
And Ctrl/Shift/Alt are also ready for crouch, run, prone.