dinomug to Firefox · 4 years agoFirefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Sourcedrewdevault.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down12cross-posted to: libre_culture
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minus-squareAgreeableLandscapelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-24 years agoWhich control character is ^W? Is it just the keyboard command to delete a word?
minus-squaredinomugOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 years agoIn Firefox the command is to close the current tab.
minus-squareAgreeableLandscapelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·4 years agoSo the ^ symbol is how ctrl is denoted?
minus-squareRavnlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 years agoThis has gotten me in trouble a couple times when I switch between the terminal and the browser.
minus-squarefederico3linkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 years agoIt’s a joke about failing to delete the last word.
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 years agoYeah, in a Linux terminal, you can press Ctrl+W to delete the previous word.
Which control character is
^W? Is it just the keyboard command to delete a word?In Firefox the command is to close the current tab.
So the
^symbol is how ctrl is denoted?yep.
Macs have it like that
This has gotten me in trouble a couple times when I switch between the terminal and the browser.
It’s a joke about failing to delete the last word.
Yeah, in a Linux terminal, you can press Ctrl+W to delete the previous word.