^W should not close conversation tabs with the Emacs Gtk key theme
@wjt
Submitted by Will Thompson Link to original bug (#510847)
Description
I have /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme set to Emacs, so that Ctrl-U deletes to the start of the line, Ctrl-K deletes to the end of the line, etc., just like at the shell and in irssi. But, Empathy intercepts Ctrl-W, which should mean "delete one word to the left of the cursor", in conversation windows and closes the window. This turns out to be really annoying when I'm talking in a MUC and keep parting and joining when I forget that ^W doesn't work properly.
This seems to be a problem in quite a few Gtk applications. Maybe the toolkit should be figuring this out for us. I'm not sure.
(I could work around this if Empathy's menu accelerators were modifiable, but they aren't.)
Version: 0.21.x