Ctrl+Backspace to delete previous word
gyvess opened this issue · comments
Any chance you could add this feature? Ctrl+Backspace is a fairly common way to quickly remove multiple characters. Sometimes correcting yourself from the beginning of a word makes more sense, so as to get a better handle on the typing rhythm of a word.
Great idea. I'll definitely do this when I get a chance.
@gyvess v0.2.1.0 supports backspacing by word. You can backspace word with ctrl+backspace, alt+backspace, or ctrl+w.
Enjoy!
I've just update to the latest release and neither Ctrl+Backspace nor Alt+Backspace seem to work, however Ctrl+w does.
Hopefully someone else can verify and this isn't simply a problem on my end.
I'm not a coder, but I added KChar 'h' -> continue $ applyBackspaceWord s in the appropriate places within UI.hs and that doesn't work either. ^H or Ctrl+h is what's commonly used for backward-kill-word in terminal, and Ctrl+Backspace essentially puts out the same code. So there appears to be some sort of modifier plus keycode conflict going on since neither work. I added and tested other characters which functioned, so I'm fairly certain this may be the case.
Tested in both ST and urxvt, using ZSH as my shell. ZSH allows you to bind Ctlr+Backspace to backward-kill-word and that works fine. I also use fzf, and had to bind Ctrl+h to backward-kill-word during a search. As a result, since Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+h are essentially the same, Ctrl+Backspace works as expected within fzf as well.
Hmm interesting. To double check you're on the correct version, what do you get for gotta-go-fast --version? (should be 0.2.1.0)
I suspect it might be as you said and there's some sort of conflict. If you feel like getting your hands dirty one way to debug it could be to log out the keycode that is actually produced when you hit ctrl+backspace (using Debug.Trace), otherwise I'll have a bit of a play to see if I can reproduce it myself (it's working okay on my machine unfortunately 😬).
I'm on the latest version, Gotta Go Fast 0.2.1.0. How do I properly invoke this debug? Again, I'm not a coder but I'd be happy to help so no one else runs into this problem.
In the meantime I have a workaround for anyone using urxvt. In your .Xresources file add URxvt.keysym.Control-BackSpace: ^W, where the ^W is invoked by pressing Ctrl+v followed by Ctrl+w. Now xrdb .Xresources and open a fresh new terminal. It should now function in gotta-go-fast now and because Ctrl+w is commonly used the same way Ctrl+Backspace is, I haven't found any conflicts.