Ctrl+w not deleting word backward in Command Palette

[maptv]

Type: Bug

Steps to reproduce: Add either of these keybinding: { "key": "ctrl+w", "command": "deleteWordLeft" } or { "key": "ctrl+w", "command": "deleteWordLeft", "when": "textInputFocus && !editorReadonly" } to keybindings.json, summon the Command Palette, type some text, press Ctrl+W.

Desired result: Delete the previous word in the Command Palette text input.

Acual result: Nothing happens or deletion occurs in the Editor instead of the Command Palette text input.

Notes:

• Alt+Backspace behaves how I want. If I could remap Ctrl+W to Alt+Backspace, I would be all set.
• This problem persists even if I disable all extensions.

VS Code version: Code 1.85.0 (af28b32, 2023-12-06T18:17:50.719Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 23.1.0
Modes:

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Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id cbd886a3-9f70-4207-ae2e-a09c1b25ee8c
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[maptv]

Even when I delete all of my settings and keybindings, I cannot bind Ctrl+W to delete previous word. If I add the binding to completely vanilla VSCode, pressing Ctrl+W deletes the entire line in Command Palette / File Search and brings up a select window popup in the Settings or Keyboard Shortcuts text input. I think there is something in VSCode that prevents this binding from working in any of the text inputs.

[TylerLeonhardt]

Yeah I don't think this works because the QuickPick input is not a rich editor like the editor is. It'd be nice to light this up, which we could do if we made the quickpick's editor a monaco instance

[maptv]

Is there any way to remap Ctrl+W to Alt+Backspace in VSCode?
In Vim, I would do something like this: inoremap <C-w> <A-BS>.