# Ctrl-k Hijacking in Editor

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-k-hijacking-in-editor/24636>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015 年 1 月 30 日午後 11:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-k-hijacking-in-editor/24636 "2015-01-30T23:54:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [2015 年 1 月 30 日午後 11:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-k-hijacking-in-editor/24636/1 "2015-01-30T23:54:49Z")

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`Ctrl-k` is a combination commonly used in UNIX systems (including OS X) for killing text (basically delete + cut). You can learn more about it [here](https://books.google.com/books?id=o9K8KEQic5sC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=kill+yank+os+x&source=bl&ots=lXOU271dlG&sig=RPtIMUBV4_fpmnzWx5BFzgEjceY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2xTMVNXLHcuIsQTBxIHQDA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=kill%20yank%20os%20x&f=false) or just do a search for “kill yank unix”. Right now the text editor hijacks this combination to insert pre-formattted text, breaking OS level key bindings.

I’d like to submit a PR to rebind pre-formatted text to `Ctrl-j`, but I want to know if you are interested in this change before I get started (if you are not interested I think I’ll just release something in the form of a browser plugin and paste a link here for the three other nerds like me 😄 ).

PS: The same case could be made for Ctrl-b, Ctrl-l on Windows and maybe Ctrl-r. Is this editor the same one used in StackOverflow? Same issues apply there.

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