117445 - Ctrl-K does not work when composing mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77976

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jan D.]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122108 (0.9.7)

In almost all text fields, the most common emacs bindings are implemented.

However, when composing mail, Ctrl-K does not work (kill to end of line),
neither does ctrl-b (backward character), not ctrl-F (forward character).  The
do all work in this entry field where I am typing now.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start composing a mail
2.Write a line, put insertion point at end of line.
3.Press ctrl-A, ctrl-K

Actual Results:  Cursor moves to beginning of line, but the row is not deletet

Expected Results:  Cursor moves to beginning of line, and the row is deleted.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "[Linux/UNIX] Ctrl-H and Ctrl-K not doing what they're supposed to 
do"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77976 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.