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Re: Ctrl key combinations

>Think of it then as a desktop convention. A user becomes accustomed to
>the behaviour of the applications on their desktop; they close with
>CTRL-Q,

Such behavior is news to me.

>If every other program closes its window with CTRL-W, so should
>X-Chat.

Since it's not the case that every other program closes its window on
^W, then there's no compelling reason to introduce this oddity into
xchat.  I have no other programs that close windows with ^W.

>The idea is to obey the "Principle of least surprise."

Exactly.  Losing information by unpredictably closing a
window/tab/whatever when one uses a conventional command to delete a
word is counter to this principle.

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