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[This feature is reports against 3.0 M2 release, but because 2.x never had it either I'm guessing it inherited the behaviour] Many of the editors etc already support CTRL+Backspace to delete the previous word, but there is a couple of spots that this feature is missing and the inconsistency bothers me a little, and I'm hoping it does for you guys too. The areas that I know of that this feature does not work are: * Open Type & Open Hierarchy * Team/CVS Commit messages (while you're there when's the auto-wrap function coming?) (2.x releases would often put a funky square box when CTRL+Backspace was typed, but 3.0 at least degrades to a standard delete character left). While not exactly an earth shattering feature, IMHO it rates higher than enhancement or trivial because: a) inconsistency (all the other text editing components support it, be very neat and clean to be consistent across the board) b) Bloody handy feature, particular when you have a brain melt and type something stupid (I will neither confirm nor deny whether this is my major problem ;) )
The difference is that in "normal" dialog these are text entry fields. For those the native platform doesn't support Ctrl+Backspace hence it isn't available.
That makes sense, the same thing happens in Swing too I believe. Is there a chance of tweaking the specific areas mentioned to a different component so this can be addressed? cheers, and thanks for the reply Paul
Converting to an enhancement since this requires feature work for entry fields.
In 3.2, CTRL+Backspace also works in the Open Type/Type Hierarchy dialog. Moving to CVS
This was fixed in 3.3 when the comments area was implemented as a SourceViewer
Thanks for the info. Marking as worksforme.
