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> In particular, don't put "close this window" on control-W

Right — Control-W should always¹ be ‘erase word’. Windows/IBM really mucked things up by stealing Control for GUI operations (among other things like conflating Tab with Next-Field because they're the same thing on punch cards).

¹ Okay, ‘end of transmission block’ is also acceptable.



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