232590 - Ctrl-K on UNIX/Linux should not check spelling; interferes with Emacs shortcut key

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[David Polberger]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.4

When I press Ctrl-K in the message compose window, I expect the Emacs behavior
(that is, that everything to the end of the line is deleted). This is standard
for text fields on UNIX. However, in this particular window, Ctrl-K is used to
check spelling, which makes the mail compose window quite annoying to use for
Emacs users, who are used to their shortcuts being supported in most applications.

Firebird has the shortcut key Alt-A for "Select All", whereas the Windows
version has Ctrl-A, for the express purpose of not interfering with the Emacs
text-editing keys. Thus, please consider doing this for Ctrl-K as well, changing
it to Alt-K on UNIX.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose message
2. Press Ctrl-K

Actual Results:  
Spell checker appeared.

Expected Results:  
It should have deleted the contents to the end of line marker.

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

Thunderbird is now using the same shortcut, accel-shift-k, as seamonkey does on
*nix.