Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete shortcuts — they should be here already!

[DesiQ 8]

Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete are standard shortcuts in all but the crappiest Windows programs. They delete up to a word boundary, and are therefore very handy when you've made a spelling mistake since it's faster for me to delete the previous word and retype it than it is to hit backspace for n letters and start writing halfway through.

 

These shortcuts are not in the desktop client, but they should have been from the beginning. Please add them.

[Rob Freundlich 146]

What version of EN and Windows are you using?  I'm on EN 5.8.5.7193 and Windows 7, and those shortcuts both work fine for me.

[Uristocles 8]

Does not work for me either.  I'm on 5.8.5.7193 (275193) Public and Win7-64 SP1.

(I'm having other editor weirdness it might be related to like extra line-feeds before and after copy/pasted text.)

 

One workaround is to use Ctrl-arrow to move between words.  Add a Shift in there to select.  And then do your delete.

 

(So to delete to the previous word-boundary: Ctrl-Shift-LeftArrow. Delete.

[DesiQ 8]

I'm running 5.8.5.7193 (275193) Public and Win7-64 SP1.

 

It's strange, but after shutting down and restarting my computer at the end of the past few days, it now works. I can't think of what other software I could have been runnning at the same time that stopped these shortcuts from working, and indeed, the first thing I did before filing this report was quit every other non-Evernote program to make sure that it was a real bug.

[Uristocles 8]

Still a no-go for me in Evernote but thanks for the tip in general.  I love learning new keyboard shortcuts!