Why does this only work sometimes? (Windows)

[andyf]

There's a lovely little delete-entire-word function accessed by hitting ctrl-backspace.

Problem is, it only seems to work in certain apps. No problem in IE/Mozilla, but gives the little 'null character' block symbols in mirc, notepad, and some windows dialog boxes.

What's that all about then.

[KingDaveRa]

Its obviously an extended character being inserted which only some apps acknowldge.

Didn't know you could do that though. You learn something new every day!

:)

[Freelance]

it depends how the app wants to interpret it. i guess it's writing a special character, a non-alphabetical character not meant to be displayed, for such purposes as end of file (CTRL-G?), new line, line feed, and i think there's one for "bing" which should make a beep on the PC's speaker when read by the pc. it's where old-school hasn't totally been taken out of some programs

[phil]

Originally posted by andyf
There's a lovely little delete-entire-word function accessed by hitting ctrl-backspace.

Problem is, it only seems to work in certain apps. No problem in IE/Mozilla, but gives the little 'null character' block symbols in mirc, notepad, and some windows dialog boxes.

What's that all about then.

Try using Ctrl-Shift-Left then backspace instead, that works almost everywhere.

[Afty]

It's not a Windows function, it's an application-level function (though Im guessing its exposed by some MFC classes which is why it's fairly common, especially among more recent applications)