Backspace Character Puns

In AHK GUIs, how do we restore correct functionality of Ctrl-Backspace and have it delete everything up to the start of the word prior to the cursor's location? Is it possible? I don't know what this rectangle is…

If I try to type username it types uskwkwnebdbdbdnekelwl and if I try to back space every backspace is skwk wkkww wkwkwwkwkdo

Just total fuckin gibberish. If I get enough of my username typed in and hit enter it just repeats it over and over

Ie : userna enter userna userna userna

EDIT: LPT is for Mac. It is 'Ctrl' + 'Backspace' on Windows.

Hello, I have KUbuntu 20.04. This problem has been going on since the first day I installed it. So I have two keyboard layouts: English (US) and Greek. On KUbuntu's advanced text editor (Kate), if I begin my document with Greek letters, then, typing or pressing backspace will work normally without doing anything. However, on Chrome or Discord for example, if I input Greek letters, the input method will automatically change to English (US) each time I press backspace, so I have to change it to Greek again. There are also certain sites that just by inputting one character will change the input method back to English (US).

This is annoyingly unproductive for me so if someone could help it would be great.

I wrote the following code in sublime text and vscode.

print('[', end='')
for i in range(11):
    print(i, end=', ')
print('\b\b]')

I got this as the output:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ]

I am confused because if I do the same in my terminal the output is as desired. Why is it so?

Edit:

I corrected the python code

For KDE apps when I use ctrl+backspace, ctrl+left/right I noticed the "_" is treated as a word character. So for example if I type "word1_word2" when I press ctrl+backspace everything is deleted and not just "word2". I wonder if there is anyway to change this?

If it is not possible with some config, then a way to change this in applications source code is also fine, since I already use my own customized builts for my kde apps. I would imagine something like overriding DeleteWordBack provided by KStandardShortcut, but I'm not really sure how.

Using backspaces makes your password "stronger" when written down, if you just choose a character to represent backspace and memorize that. This character can be as simple as a specific number or a letter if you like. Then if someone steals your password written on paper they still wont get acces to your accounts as easily.

And yes I know that the longer the password the better usually, and yes I know the length alone does not make a password safe. Using lots of special characters combined with a lengthy password is the best practice, but who can remember all these complicated passwords. If you want to follow those guidelines for passwords you most likely have to write the passwords down, since you should have unique passwords for every single thing, if you for some reason don't want to or can't use a password managing software.

Even though it is more likely to lose your passwords online, it is still possible to lose them if written down, though more unlikely. This tip goes out to the people who might be concerned about getting their written down passwords getting stolen and making those passwords more secure with a quite easily rememberable rule that requires a bit of outside the box thinking to figure out.

This tip was inspired by my grandma who actually had her purse stolen and in that purse she had passwords written down in a notebook, including passcodes for debit/credit cards. The passwords/codes were well ciphered however and I bet the thief would not have figured them out even if they had a lot of time to work on them, which they didn't since all debit/credit card were killed by the banks right after my grandma reported the theft.

Stay safe with your passwords folks, on the internet and in the real life.

Hello,

I want to move from nvim-qt to Alacritty since it seems to have a huge speed and performance improvement (especially when working on large files). However, I'm struggling with one change that I'm not sure why it happens.

In insert-mode when I press "Backspace" the cursor jumps backwards but does not delete the character. I tried googling and found this setting:

set backspace=indent,eol,start

However, that doesn't change anything for me. I also tried setting it directly in the terminal of a session and that also didn't work.

Has anyone run into this issue, and does anyone know how to solve it?

OS: Windows 10

Detailed description with links to posts/comments if relevant/steps to reproduce:

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On face, this looks like a tech support question, but I promise there's an embedded context!

I'm working on an open source function generator design that interfaces with a computer as a USB CDC peripheral. The USB Device is just an STM32 microcontroller. It accepts commands from a host computer via Virtual Com Port serial commands.

The code running on the STM32 is a pretty simple superloop that appends and deletes characters into a buffer as they are received from the host computer. The problem is that the STM32 doesn't appear to handle backspaces sent from my Mac laptop correctly:

https://github.com/Cushychicken/bfunc/blob/70164fa216af2d420ac4e2c07cbf3730d99c3624/sw_embedded/bfunc_rev1/Src/main.c#L227

I've used gdb to inspect the contents of the buffer on the STM32, and I note that the chip receives the value 0xB1 (0d177) for a backspace character sent from my Mac. As a result, it doesn't decrement the command buffer or reset the cursor correctly when I connect the USB device to my Mac.

I've tried this on a Windows machine running PuTTY, and backspace works correctly: the last character is deleted from both the buffer and the serial terminal application.

These two posts have convinced me that the Mac terminal, by default, sends a different hex character for the "Backspace" key than a Windows computer:

• http://www.macfreek.nl/memory/Backspace_and_Delete_key_reversed#Screen
• https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto/issues/61

So I suppose my question is: what's the right way to solve this? Should I add another case in my switch statement that handles backspace characters from a Mac? Should I change my Mac's serial terminal settings to send the correct ASCII backspace character?

In most applications, Ctrl+Backspace removes the word left to the cursor. When renaming a file or folder in Windows, however, it just inserts a garbage character like shown below. Is it intended?

UPD: managed to reproduce the issue on 1809 and 1903. Didn't test other versions

https://preview.redd.it/i1yuht6w8xt31.png?width=102&format=png&auto=webp&s=31ed155a5b3556f25957d7bad43aae7e856c785e

Not sure why this is happening, but:

1. Only happens on Brave's URL bar (for instance, searching in Brave Settings works normally)

2. Only happened from the latest update onwards

Can anybody help?

I've set the Keyboard Repeat Rate to it's lowest value in control panel and there has been no effect. Any idea what I can do to fix this?

Specifics: If you were to type a three paragraph essay that takes three hours, deleting the whole essay would bring you back to the moment before you began typing the essay.

This is a Utility Power, yes?

Edit: fixed, described at the end of post
I'm on arch and suddenly, when pressing backspace a few times, it writes the insert character (I think it's "^[[~" ), it even keeps spamming it when i stop holding the backspace key. It doesn't show in terminal anymore since I removed it with stty erase "^[[~", but it still writes the erase character "^?" on press, which it did not before. I also cannot hold it to keep erasing anymore, neither in terminal nor in browser etc.
example output of xev after holding backspace, releasing it and pressing it again:

118 Insert  
118 Insert    
22  BackSpace  (pressed it again here)
118 Insert  (keeps spamming after releasing it)
118 Insert    
118 Insert  
118 Insert  
118 Insert  
118 Insert  
118 Insert  
118 Insert  
118 Insert  

It could have happened because of an update, but it started quite recently. Does anyone know a possible solution or cause?

Edit: It's not an Xorg or i3 problem, happens in cli too without starting Xorg/i3.
Edit2: I'm on a Lenovo Thinkpad T440
Edit3: I think I fixed it, I just changed the keyboard layout around to de and uk and then changed it back to de-latin1, now everything seems normal again.

Using Word 2019 if it matters, but I can switch to Notepad if needed.

tl;dr, my left arm is temporarily unusable, and I'd like to be able to do this without having to use my mouse to highlight every time I want to delete a sentence, but my computer seems to be set to Holy Shit Fast when I hold down the backspace/delete key.

Thanks!

I have a toshiba with windows 10. My friends gave it to me and I think he downloaded the hearing/vision impaired version of widows 10. But my keyboard clicks when I type. I want to stop that. Also I can't delete more than one letter at a time. I can't hold down the backspace key and delete more than one character at a time. I have looked at YouTube tutorials about going to the keyboard settings but have not been able to figure it out. They sent me to the keyboard settings but I can't find anything there to stop the clicking.

Typing is pretty hard now as I cant write words with 2 letters without double checking them

I thought the issue was with my keyboard but it's only happening when I reply to a comment (or as I just discovered, in the text part of a post) in Joey. Anyone else having this issue?

Edited to use the auto feature to add my device info. Using SwiftKey.

Edited again because it didn't work. Galaxy S7 Edge.

Once again because it turns out I was hitting the wrong button.

Whenever I press backspace on something like the Pamac search and nothing is written there my computer just makes this loud beep. The command: rmmod pcspkr disables it until I reboot the machine, how can I disable it permanently

Hold Shift and use the arrow keys to highlight using your cursor.
Press ctrl-shift-arrow to highlight an entire word.
Press shift-home to highlight an entire line from your cursor position to the beginning.
Shift-end does the same but to the end. Shift-pg up highlights everything from your current cursor position to the the beginning of your text.
Shift-pg dn does the same but to the end of your text.
Ctrl-arrow key jumps your cursor by an entire word.

I never use a mouse to adjust my cursor position when editing text thanks to these tricks.