Behaviour of ctrl key sequences in firefox-1.0PR

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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jimmie james wrote:
|>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.

For reverting all control keys to the Emacs style, just add the
following to ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

Or, if running GNOME, use the Keyboard Shortcuts capplet to change the
Text editing shortcuts to Emacs.

Joe


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