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Agreed -- I am surprised (/disappointed?) they didn't add a replacement shortcut e.g. Alt+Backspace or something similar.
by tjalex 10y ago
Agreed -- I am surprised (/disappointed?) they didn't add a replacement shortcut e.g. Alt+Backspace or something similar.
- coldpie 10y agoAlt-Left does the trick and isn't ambiguous with "delete a character."
- lstamour 10y agoI thought Alt+Left arrow and Alt+right arrow (or some variant) were universal?
- thiht 10y agoAlt+Left requires moving both hands, Backspace is only one finger away If only Alt-Gr+Left or Right Ctrl+Left worked...
- jemfinch 10y agoAlt+Left requires two fingers, but not two hands. You're aware of the alt to the right of the space bar, yes?
- varjag 10y agoNot on many European layouts.
- thiht 10y agoIn France at least we have an Alt-Gr key (roughly equivalent to holding Ctrl+Alt) on the right of the spacebar instead of an Alt key. And unfortunately Alt-Gr+Left does nothing. So we have to use two hands to press Alt+Left, that's why I personally prefer using Backaspace
- handelaar 10y agoOn American keyboards.
- JdeBP 10y agoIt's not the keyboards. It's the keyboard layouts that are configured in software. And not all "American" keyboard layouts make that key an Alt modifier. The Microsoft Windows "United States International" keyboard layout makes it level 3 shift, for example. And if one includes North America and South America in "American" the same goes for the Canadian Multilingual and the Brazilian Portuguese layouts. (-:
- hussong 10y agoNot all keyboards are the same. Think Laptops, international keyboard layouts etc.
- JdeBP 10y agoIn many keyboard layouts, this key is not an Alt modifier. It is, rather, level 3 shift (in ISO 9995 terminology) - a.k.a. "Option", a.k.a. "Alt Gr".
- 7Z7 10y agoThe grandparent suggested - Alt+Backspace
- ojanvafai 10y agoThanks for pointing this out. Should be fixed soon: crbug.com/613201.
- malz 10y agoAlt-[ and Alt-] also work. And they work even if a text field (including the address bar) is selected, whereas backspace or alt-left/right change to their text-editing behavior.