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Where Does CTRL-W Come From?

Started by philcrissman · 4 months ago

I’ve been wondering recently about the history of CTRL-W.

As a convention, it seems universal: CTRL-W closes a tab. I’ve found only one application which uses a tab-convention for different “pages” but does not accept CTRL-W to close tabs (MomentIM, a Jabber client).

Everything else I’ve seen that uses tabs, also uses CTRL-W as the [...] ... Continue reading »

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