opera tip
11 Nov 2003Seeing as how I just deleted 2 pages of a post by accidentally closing Opera, I will present this handy tip, first:
Ever accidentally close your browser with CTRL-w? UNIX users are used to C-w being “delete word”, but it has other, unfortunate bindings by default in other applications, Opera included.
Luckily (but too late), I just discovered you can turn that off in Opera 7.21 (perhaps earlier):
Go to File -> Preferences -> Mouse and keyboard
Under “Keyboard setup” click “Edit”. In the “quick search”, search for “close”. There you have it – the various bindings for Close page, Close window, etc. I deleted them all. When i close my browser I want to mean to close it.
Using Preferences -> Mouse and Keyboard -> Keyboard Setup -> Advanced -> Form I tried to bind “w ctrl” to “Delete word” by adding an entry. It’s not deleting the word, but it did disable the window closing; good enough for now. (Opera 7.54/FreeBSD)