im the only person i know that uses ctrl + backspace to erase entire words while typing so i thought id share this command cause it rly improves type speed
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If you enable the Emacs key theme for GTK on Linux you can use Ctrl-W instead along with the other Unix / Emacs style key bindings like Ctrl-A to go the start of the a line and Ctrl-E to go the end, similar to the default key bindings in Zsh and Bash too.
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.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs
It's respected by a fair number of non-GTK applications like Chromium too. The one bad thing is you get used to Ctrl-W and then you're on Windows and accidentally murder tabs with it.
Select all is instead Ctrl-/ (works without it too). Can still use most of the standard stuff like ctrl-arrows and ctrl-shift-arrows.
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This is nice! I was always wondering how I could do this on Linux because I have a habit of hitting random Emacs shortcuts after using macOS