180950 - [linux] shortcut for selecting all in textarea in mail compose window is broken

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

on linux (unix), you can use Alt-A to select the contents of a textarea, such as
the comment selection of a bug report, or the composition region in the mail
compose window.

that shortcut is broken, using 2002.11.19.04 comm trunk bits on linux rh7.2.
fwiw, i'm using the default keybindings, where Ctrl is my accelerator key and
Alt is (usually) the access key.

using the context menu to select all (or, Edit > Select All for the mail compose
window) still works.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i take back what i said about textareas in browser pages. looks like this might
be limited to the mail compose window. regular composer window appears fine, too.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

ducarroz / varada / seth, any ideas what might've caused this regression?

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

I think I've seen other bugs regarding key bindings working strangely in mail
compose -- I'm fairly sure this is a dup.

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1+/adt2

Comment 7

[lee]

shouldn't this bug be classified as belonging to the mailnews product?

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

over to shuehan.

Comment 9

[shliang]

back to seth

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

caillon tells me:

"I run into this a lot.  I just assumed that it wasn't supposed to work.
I just tried it on a trunk from 428"

accepting, will see what I can do.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

not a problem on win2k or mac os x. will look through older builds to see if i
can get a regression window.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this regressed sometime btwn 8-Aug-2002 (Alt+A works) and 4-Sept-2002 (Alt+A
broken). i know this is a large window, but i can't find builds btwn those dates.

Comment 13

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

theory:  the select all js for the attachment bucket is raining on our select
all parade.

Comment 14

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 168426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

new theory, one that looks promising.

the access key for the bucket is "_A_ttachments:".

alt a -> sets focus to that.

(Alt a is select all on linux)

very noticable if you have an attachment.  I bet if I set that access key to
something like "A_t_tahments:", I bet this goes away.

testing now

Comment 16

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

that fixes it, but "_t_" is bad, because of "_Tools" menu.

"Atta_c_hments:" works.

patch coming.

Comment 17

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Attachment: patch

Comment 18

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 122373 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Ah, good catch Seth.  r=caillon.

Comment 19

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.

sr=bienvenu, a=sspitzer

Comment 20

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed on linux rh8.0, 2003.05.05.08 comm build.

Comment 21

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

can someone (sarah / caillon) confirm check that "alt c" isn't something else,
already?

copy, on linux, is ctrl c.

but isn't it possible (likely) that someone will set it to alt c?  (or am I
confused?)

maybe something else, besides "c" would be better.  something less common.

Comment 22

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

alt-c never seems to bring the file picker up (for attachments).

Comment 23

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

how about the 'm' in Attach_m_ents?

Comment 24

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okay, after chatting with seth about this further, we've decided to stick with
alt-c to focus the attachment listbox.

* the trick is that there needs to be at least one file in the attachment pane
in order to actually see focus when using alt-c --this occurs elsewhere in the
app (Send Format pref panel).

* seth thought that alt-c would clobber copy for those who use alt for the accel
key. then again, alt-m would clobber bringing up mail compose for that
environment, so we'll stick with alt-c for now.