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I wrote a long comment about text-fields being overly aggressive and controlling, but then I clicked and accidentally dragged in my browser's URL text field (this should have selected some of the text!), and the page got reloaded, which deleted my comment.

I give up. But I guess at least this proves my point.

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One slightly inconvenient workaround is using GhostText and then using a proper text editor for long comments - precisely to avoid the eagerly-user-input-destroying web

I am about 24 hours into using ghostText after losing a significant amount of effort to a distracted `C-w`. Browser tab gone; much swearing ensued. I was tempted to start logging my own keystrokes after this… but that's not a good idea.

With this extension (+1), I'm happy that `C-w` does as God, readline, and Emacs intended.

Yeah, that's another fundamental fail of the OS - it should allow you to simply register an "OS input editor" that can be used in any text input field so you can use all the features (including recovery) of a dedicated text editing app instead of relying on whatever shoddy substitution some apps have come up with

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