Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

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This is the second keyboard shortcut problem.

Ctrl+Del works everywhere.

Ctrl+BS work in:
  1. Command line
  2. File panel headers
  3. Copy/Rename/Move (F5/F6)
  4. File creation dialog (Shift+F4)
  5. Rename (system plugins)
  6. Pack/Unpack files (1 field)
  7. dialogs ([+] button) of the transfer manager
  8. All dialogs (New..., Edit..., Rename/Copy...) for command browser usercmd.ini page
Doesn't work in (adding Alt+0127 symbol instead of deleting text blocks):
  1. All fields of the configuration window and non-system subwindows
  2. All fields of the internal associations window and subwindows
  3. All fields of the associate window and subwindows
  4. Tooltip field in "Change (single) button bar" dialog
  5. All fields of "Find Files" window (Alt+F7)
  6. FTP: connection details (all fields)
  7. Command browser filter field
  8. Ctrl+F12 / Num+ filter dialog
  9. MRT (Ctrl+M, all fields)
  10. Select duplicate files
  11. Unpack files (2 field)
  12. Pack files (Configure... >> fields of the any plugin options)
  13. cm_ShowQuickSearch
  14. Ctrl+N (cm_FtpNew)
  15. cm_RenameOnly
  16. New folder (F7)
  17. cm_VolumeId
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Re: Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

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Ctrl+Backspace isn't a standard edit box control hotkey. Windows seems to add it when adding auto-complete.
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And how can autocompletion only be related to a worklist?
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Re: Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

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It looks like Microsoft wanted to improve the edit boxes used for URLs and paths and therefore added some functions which are especially useful for this type of content. Edit boxes with simple content like a single word or number don't really benefit from them.
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Re: Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

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like a single word or number
But almost all problematic dialogs have fields that imply a different number of words and text blocks, particularly in paths.
Why, for example, does the file creation dialog have this feature, but the folder creation dialog does not?
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Confirm that. The same is in notepad.exe (win 7) in find/replace text lines. May by, the problem is not only in TC. But, can it be fixed or get some workaround?
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Re: Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

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ghisler(Author) wrote: 2021-04-26, 06:56 UTC It looks like Microsoft wanted to improve the edit boxes used for URLs and paths and therefore added some functions which are especially useful for this type of content. Edit boxes with simple content like a single word or number don't really benefit from them.
Not Microsoft but a single developer:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071011-00/?p=24823 wrote:This is one of those scary “rogue features”. There’s no spec, there’s no testing, it’s just a developer who spent some time whacking a feature into the product because he liked it
Let's call it a easter egg and not a feature:-)

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MaxX wrote: 2021-04-26, 17:21 UTC But, can it be fixed or get some workaround?
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