ipython Qtconsole - conflicting keybinding

Question

The ipython documentation says, that "The qt-console has emacs-style keybindings"

However, when I press Ctrl+w, instead of the expected emacs-style keybinding (delete word backward), my session/window is closed

is this intended behavior?

Ctrl+w is the most useful emacs-style keybinding. I find it very unfortunate that somebody has decided to hijacke it for "close window"

Is there any way to reset it back to emacs-style

Answer 1

Not the answer you were looking for, but I am pretty sure this is not possible. The document you point to says "The Qt frontend has hand-coded emacs-style bindings for text navigation. This is not yet configurable." The fact that they are hand coded means that there is no default emacs-style binding set to "revert" back to.