Keyboard input bug in firefox-1.0_7,1

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 7 10:47:59 PST 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:19:28PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> | Firebird 0.6.1 (and Mozilla 1.8) correctly knows when one is in the URL
> | address text box or the search text box; thus correctly processing ^U.
> |
> | With firefox-1.0_7,1 ^U always pulls up "page source" which isn't what it
> | should on Unix.
> |
> | Know bug?
> 
> First, when upgrading like this, you should blow away all your .dat
> files under ~/.mozilla/firefox.

I blew away all of ~/.mozilla. :-)
 
> However, the Cntrl+U "problem" is most likely due to the new GTK+ 2
> keybindings.  If you want to revert to the old Emacs-style keys, consult
> the all-powerful archives:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-gnome/2004-October/008615.html

Yep, that message seems to be my answer.  THANKS!
I totally cannot believe the GTK+ 2 developers thought it OK to change
the behavior of ^U.  That is a Unix'ism, not an Emacs'ism.

    $ stty -a
    ..snip..
        kill = ^U
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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