On 2021-10-22 11:56, Paul Dann via arch-general wrote:
Has anyone been able to figure out how to disable the Ctrl-W shortcut in Firefox? As a Vim user I'm constantly accidentally closing tabs when I want to delete the last word in a text field.
Yes. You can either patch Firefox sources and then build it yourself or hot-patch the binary after build. If you want the first approach, look up the patch from the repo of the author of Firenvim, I believe he maintains a source patch. If you want the latter approach you can use my patch script here: https://github.com/alerque/que-firefox/blob/master/bin/patch-firefox.sh Just note you have to run this every time you update Firefox. To my knowledge there are no other ways to make the CTRL+W hotkey combo into something you can configure yourself, it is just hard coded without being patched. Caleb