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My favorite one of these is typing ctrl-w (cut in emacs) in a browser tab as I am editing a bunch of text in a text box.

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I use vimperator, so the only program I use a lot which still doesn't recognize ctrl+w is Hexchat.

My friends have gotten used to see me part the channel and rejoin shortly after, cursing my fingers.

Hexchat closing on C-w is such a pain! It can't be scripted away either because it's hardcoded in the source. I haven't looked into this for some time but there does seem to have been some updates.

https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/397

That sounds like the kind of thing that would be really easy to maintain your own fork for...

HexChat parting on Ctrl+w is probably one of the main reasons that drove me to use a TUI IRC client like weechat.

You can try Lazarus form recovery[1] to mitigate your pain. It locally saves the content of forms and allows you to pull it back.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...

Heh, for me ctrl-w means "extend selection to enclosing expression", which leads to the same issue in browsers.

One of the things I appreciate about macOS is that it implements some of the emacs behavior (C-a, C-e, C-k). Unfortunately not C-y, and non of the M- ones work since that's for special characters. I understand they originally come from the readline library.

Now try C-k and then C-y

Then regular old Cmd + v.

You're welcome.

Well, cutting is called killing in Emacs...

So why is emodendroket referring to ctrl-w then?

In other words ctrl-w is "kill," which is what most people would think of as "cut," and ctrl-y is "yank," which is what most people would think of as "paste."

And Vimmers would think of yank as copy or kill save

That's funny. Never thought about that. I guess Emacs people think of it as yanking from the clipboard to the document, and Vim people think of it as yanking from the document into the clipboard.

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