Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:52:06 -0400 From: jimmie james <jimmiejaz@gmail.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Behaviour of ctrl key sequences in firefox-1.0PR Message-ID: <7e148fb90410180852661883e2@mail.gmail.com>
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> I've lately portupgraded to firefox-1.0PR and I have found a couple > of what for me are serious usability issues. I cannot say if these > are linked, but the behaviour seems to indicate it. First, I can > no longer use ctrl-u, ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-k and so on in the URL > field, or any other text input field. Additionally, any movement > input using neither arrow keys nor the usual emacs ctrl key sequences > is possible in text input fields. I hated that too, but on the firefox forums, http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4 I came across this gem of a "tip" /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.10.1/res/builtin/platformHTMLBindings.xml add to text input section <handler event="keypress" key="u" modifiers="control" command="cmd_deleteToBeginningOfLine "/> With that, ^u in a text box, erases text, on a page, views source. Adding other entries and keystrokes will get all your old bindings back. There's a thead (sorry, don't have the URL handy) that lists the valid "cmd_*" settings. >=20 > Although the latter issue seems more serious on the surface, I'm > sure it is just a bug and will be easily fixed - it is the loss of > key bindings for ctrl that is causing me real angst. This causes > me real problems with pasting from other applications (I'm on FreeBSD > 5.3BETA7), as I would usually select some text in the shell, click > into the URL field, ctrl-u, middleclick paste and so on. Needless > to say, ctrl-u now produces something entirely unwanted, and > attempting to paste with ctrl-v leaves me with the problem of > removing the old text and highlighting replaces what is in the mouse > buffer! Basically, my only option is to backspace over the entire > line - not fun... >=20 > What I'm a little concerned about philosophically, going forward, > is whether this adoption of Microsoft key bindings will continue > as this appears to be at odds with the mouse select/paste model in > X - something I'm very fond of, and one of my primary reasons for > preferring to work in X rather than with MS windows. At present, I > am using Mozilla 1.7 as a workaround as I found it impossible to > work happily without the simple ability to kill text from and move > within an input field. Hope this helps.
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