Alt+Backspace, Ctrl+Backspace whole word deletion about cordless

[LeafyLappa]

ctrl+backspace works however once I change it things become chaotic.
On top of that ctrl+w now inserts invisible characters too.

[Bios-Marcel]

Hey there, thanks for creating an issue on this.
While you are right, that Ctrl+W is a less widely known variant of the shortcut, it's easily usable on every keyboard and every terminal and it's what command-line-application users are used to. Therefore I still deem it do be a good default.

However, cordless allows you to change any existing shortcut for pre-defined features, such as Delete word left is one. You can change the shortcut via Ctrl+K, selecting relevant entry, hitting Enter ans hitting your desired key combination.

Note that right now, Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work, but Alt+Backspace will, depending on your operating system / terminal.

This is due to an underlying issue where some terminals don't differentiate between delete and backspace. Maybe this was a tcell issue and is resolved by know, i'll have to reinvestigate this.

[LeafyLappa]

Interesting. I'm using xfce4-terminal.

For some reason I also figured that the typical behavior of the vim-like delete word was slightly different from ctrl+backspace style but it does not seem to be the case (my bad I suppose), so the possibility to change the key combination for the shortcut pretty much closes this issue (at least, once it's possible to make ctrl+backspace work).

[Bios-Marcel]

Hey @Greentaily can you checkout whether the latest commit solves your issue?

[LeafyLappa]

Just built from the latest commit and both ctrl+backspace and alt+backspace now seem to add invisible characters that need to be removed with normal backspace (which works) instead of deleting anything. Once I rebind the shortcut everything becomes chaotic and simply won't work, even regular backspace.

[Bios-Marcel]

Okay, I see. If Ctrl+Backspace is chosen, alt+backspace will miss behave and vice versa.

[LeafyLappa]

I might have poorly expressed myself. They both misbehave in my terminal. Even if I bind the shortcut to ctrl+w now, they both add invisible characters.

[Bios-Marcel]

Yeah, I added another workaround. Can you try again please?

[Bios-Marcel]

I noticed after I've committed haha. I now ignore all characters that aren't runes, tab or newline.
Also, what do you mean with chaotic?

[LeafyLappa]

Never mind, tested twice and it actually works perfectly except the invisible characters on ctrl+w. I launched the installed version of cordless the first time instead of the one built from cloned repo I suppose.

[Bios-Marcel]

I'll be closing this then. Reopen it or recomment if you still have problems.