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Ctrl + Right Arrow behaviour - how do I change?
It has irritated me for years that ctrl + right arrow puts the caret (the blinky insertion point) at the beginning of the next word rather than the end of the current word. This is irritating because it includes the spacebar character when selecting a whole word with ctrl+shift+right. It is especially irritating because it is inconsistent with ctrl + left arrow, which does not include the useless spacebar character.
Try it now, seriously. Open up a text document, click a random word, then ctrl + shift + left and you'll notice that it (correctly) doesn't include the useless space behind the word. Now try ctrl + shift + right and you'll see that now it has stupidly included the empty space in front of the word.
Does anyone know of a way (perhaps a registry entry?) that changes this ludicrous behaviour? Firefox has a config setting called layout.selection.caret_style which can fix it, but I can't figure out how to fix it in Windows itself. I searched the entire Windows registry for terms like "caret", "space", "insertion", and "insert", but I didn't come across any relevant registry entries. I also searched Google for 15-20 minutes in vain.
Whoever can help me fix this damnable infernal functionality will have my eternal gratitude.