Ctrl w is the standard 'kill word' (aka werase). Ctrl u kills the whole line ( kill). You can change them with stty.
Ranking all the major hardware Apple released in 2018 [Cult of Mac Magazine No. How Do I Delete Text (Not Backspace Over It)? By Giles Turnbull • 6:45 am, March 30, 2010. Clear the Backspace definition shortcut key of backspace (don't really know where that command is used anyway). Locate the Delete command, click on Define hit the backspace key and then press the Add button.
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Several times over the last couple weeks, I type up a very well thought out response on Facebook in political conversations with friends. An hour or two into my work, I hit backspace with the intent of editing what I wrote (maybe after I scrolled or something, so maybe I unintentionally took the edit window out of focus). The navigator takes me back a page and I lose my two hours of work. Shortcuts with the ability to wipe out two hours of works should be disable-able.
Not only that, I feel that is an unsafe shortcut for this very reason, and would have added a SHIFT modifier key or something like that. I think I invented a cool word: disable-able. Several times over the last couple weeks, I type up a very well thought out response on Facebook in political conversations with friends.
An hour or two into my work, I hit backspace with the intent of editing what I wrote (maybe after I scrolled or something, so maybe I unintentionally took the edit window out of focus). The navigator takes me back a page and I lose my two hours of work. Shortcuts with the ability to wipe out two hours of works should be disable-able. Not only that, I feel that is an unsafe shortcut for this very reason, and would have added a SHIFT modifier key or something like that. I think I invented a cool word: disable-able.