Abigail <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:37:09AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote: >> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> >>> Aquamacs mercifully changes apple-w from uselessly closing the Emacs >>> window >>> (never what an Emacs user wants) to kill-this-buffer. >> >> Like a tabbed Web browser? I agree that altering the meaning of >> Command-W is a big improvement for tabbed interfaces, but I still hate >> it. > > > I hate the behaviour of ^W in modern firefoxes. > > It used to be that ^W closed the current window, if the focus wasn't > on a text input field or if the URL bar had the focus. In such a case, > ^W would erase the word before the cursor. Just like 'readline'. > > This is no longer the case. ^W always kills a window. > > Even several years later, I still have the urge to use ^W to clear the > URL bar - often to see firefox disappear (if there's just one window).
This is a GTK setting if you're on Unix: $ echo 'gtk-key-theme-name="Emacs"' >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 I don't remember exact the gconf key if you're running gnome, it's somewhere under /desktop/gnome/interface/. -- ilmari "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
