Ctrl+Backspace behavior in TextInput

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Version/Branch of Dear ImGui:

Version v1.90.8, Branch: master

Back-ends:

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Compiler, OS:

Windows 11 + MSVC 2022

Full config/build information:

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My Issue/Question:

Hey, I noticed that ctrl+backspace would erase a full path (e.g., C:\Users\John) without stopping at the \ or at the /. I tracked the reason to this function that doesn't include \ and / as seperator.

I tried to track down the original commit, but it's a bit hard, due to the function moving file, but for sure it's over 6 years old. What I was wondering, is whether there is a reason to not include those two characters as seperator?

As an example, Chrome, Firefox, Powershell, Explorer (probably most other software) treat \ and / as seperator for the sake of Ctrl+Backspace. Cmd.exe doesn't, I'm sure there is other, but won't try every software.

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Minimal, Complete and Verifiable Example code:

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[ocornut]

We could add this indeed.

It would be good to survey other features (ctrl + arrows etc) on both Windows and Mac and decide which would be affected by slashes and which would not.

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I can definitely try to get some data on Windows, but I have no way to do it on Mac. I'll edit the original post with a list of "common" software, but anybody is free to participate.

[Mattwmaster58]

It would be good to survey other features (ctrl + arrows etc)

Hmm, my assumption and intuition / data on windows would be these boundaries would be the same between different Ctrl actions (arrow, backspace, shift+arrow)

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I'll actually create the list here, anybody feel free to contribute:

Windows

Consider / and \ as seperator for Ctrl+Backspace and for Ctrl+Arrows

• Firefox search bar
• Chrome search bar
• Powershell
• Spotify search
• File Explorer
• Discord
• Sublime Text
• Visual Studio Code (Maybe default on Electron?)
• p4merge (Maybe default with Qt?)
• Open Broadcaster Studio
• Notepad++

Ignore / and \ as seperator for Ctrl+Backspace and for Ctrl+Arrows

• Cmd.exe

[ocornut]

Thank you Laurent for the detailed list. Merged your change as 96460a8.
I apologize that I haven't reacted to this earlier. I'm happy with following Windows standard by default.
If the question is ever raised again for other OS/apps we'll have this as a reference. Thanks!