[fwip]

^W is ctrl-W.

[eviks]

So what? How does it address the issue I've described?

[fwip]

It's the same number of keypresses as alt-U.

[eviks]

So now it's not "more keystrokes" as you originally claimed (and it's a higher number of keypressses vs holding U), and you still haven't addressed the issue with ^W I've described