[FR] Ctrl, shift or alt + backspace deletes a whole word at a time

[annieappflowy]

Description

As described in the title

Impact

Users who use a shortcut to delete a word

Additional Context

No response

[MayurSMahajan]

Hello @annieappflowy! Actually pressing ctrl + backspace already deletes a word. This issue (#75 ) is already completed with this PR: #1845 . Maybe on some users' keyboards, it might not work because of different international keyboard layouts.

[Erik0806]

Doesn't work on a German keyboard

[annieappflowy]

The user who reported this issue is on a Norwegian keyboard

[richardshiue]

I'm not sure what's the norm on macOS but I've only been able to delete a whole word at a time in other text fields or text editing software (browser, office, etc) with Ctrl+Backspace, not shift+backspace or alt+backspace.

And to add to this, I hope the usability of the handler can be improved. When Ctrl+Backspace is triggered while there are multiple spaces and tabs after a word like an apple |, should still be able to delete the word. That is, the previous text turns into an |

[LucasXu0]

@MayurSMahajan is working on this issue. Users can customize the delete a whole word to their desired keybinding.

[MayurSMahajan]

And to add to this, I hope the usability of the handler can be improved. When Ctrl+Backspace is triggered while there are multiple spaces and tabs after a word like an apple |, should still be able to delete the word. That is, the previous text turns into an |

Yeah, that could be more reasonable, I will see what I can do about it.

[iBobik]

It should by default follow OS conventions. So on macOS alt+backpace for word.

[Xazin]

There is this PR on the Editor repo (AppFlowy-IO/appflowy-editor#32)

What it does is it makes cmd + backspace delete to beginning of sentence on MacOS, and alt + backspace on Windows. And makes it so ctrl + backspace on Windows deletes word, on MacOS word deletion is alt (option) + backspace.

[Xazin]

@annieappflowy This can be closed as done 👍