Comments on: help Ctrl-Q die

By: Leo S

Leo S — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:05:32 +0000

Huh? All the apps I use take Ctrl-Q to quit, except the broken Firefox. If your app closes on Ctrl-W, it’s broken. As others have mentioned, Ctrl-W is close document, not quit.

By: Mr. Berg

Mr. Berg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:38:15 +0000

CTRL-W should delete last word, just like in bash/vim etc. Escape on the other hand…

Either way, it shouldn’t close the application, but the current tab/file/project. Back to the drawing board boys.

By: Björn

Björn — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:55:05 +0000

Hear hear! I too am very sick of having to remember that different applications use different keybindings to quit. It is totally silly, but as long as each project has its own opinion about what keybindings makes sense and refuses to go with the flow it probably won’t change. :(

By: menko

menko — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:46:13 +0000

midori….

By: Mati

Mati — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:41:25 +0000

The same goes for switching between tabs. Firefox uses Ctrl-Tab (and Ctrl-Shift-Tab), and people are quite used to it, gedit uses Alt+Ctrl+Page[Up|Down] (which cannot be invoked using one hand), neither of these works in Anjuta IDE.

This is madness! :)

By: fraggle

fraggle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:55:43 +0000

Preach it brother! I’m so fed up of applications that use Ctrl-Q/Quit instead of Ctrl-W/Close. Every time I see a program with a “quit” menu item, it makes me a little sad inside.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:09:26 +0000

Mmmh, am I wrong or you used Ctrl-w to cancel a word? ^__^

By: liberforce

liberforce — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:14:46 +0000

Same goes for Ctrl+Shift+Z and Ctrl+Y to redo an action…

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:29:17 +0000

I have to agree with Calvin. For tools with tabs or the like, ctrl-w should only close the current tab. Ctrl-q should close the application. For other tools, ctrl-w and ctrl-q should both close the application, in my opinion.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:53:14 +0000

nuXXX: C-w is just as close to C-q as C-a is…