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#10 Ctrl-W closes window

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2001-02-21
2001-02-21
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The Ctrl-W combo closes the active shell.

I use the Ctrl-W sequence to move between multiple windows in VIM.

For a terminal emulator, capturing Ctrl-<any character> is probably not a great idea.

It would be nice if I could turn off Ctrl-W processing by PowerShell,
so that it can be passed on to VIM.

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  • Ron Murray

    Ron Murray - 2001-03-27

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    I have this problem too (which makes deletions in Emacs
    difficult), and I also have a problem where ctl-q closes
    powershell completely. This means you can't do flow control
    with ctl-s/ctl-q.
    I don't think this is a problem with powershell itself; it
    seems to reside in one of the libraries it uses. I know it
    didn't appear until a month or so ago, just after I
    upgraded an assortment of libraries (but not powershell).
    Perhaps somebody decided it'd be a good idea to emulate
    Lose-dows' (probably TM) shortcuts without telling anybody.

    .....Ron

     
  • Ron Murray

    Ron Murray - 2001-04-09

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    OK, so I was wrong. Serves me right for not RTFM. You can
    change keyboard shortcuts with Edit/Preferences->Keyboard.
    Changing the 'close' shortcut to "alt-w" and the quit
    shortcut to "alt-q" worked for me.

     

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