Ctrl+Backspace doesn't work in many fields

[Fla$her]

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

[ghisler(Author)]

Ctrl+Backspace isn't a standard edit box control hotkey. Windows seems to add it when adding auto-complete.

[Fla$her]

And how can autocompletion only be related to a worklist?

[ghisler(Author)]

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.

[Fla$her]

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?

[MaxX]

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?

[HolgerK]

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:

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:-)

Regards
Holger

[HolgerK]

But, can it be fixed or get some workaround?

AHK:

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^Backspace::Send +^{Left}{Backspace}

Regards
Holger