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> How is what you want different from pressing delete?

Compact and laptop keyboards; sometimes excluded, often poorly/inconsistently sized/positioned.

There's a much better chance of Ctrl+Backspace being a consistent movement independent of keyboard layout, so I can appreciate where the parent is coming from.



Those compact layouts that exclude a delete key typically replace it with Fn + Backspace.

I'm not saying there aren't scenarios where ctrl + backspace would be useful, however the majority of the time I'd argue that delete is available and should be used.

Is the desire for a ctrl + backspace chord coming from some other system where this is the standard keying?




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