122397 - delete last directory of URL with CTRL-BACKSPACE

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 98546

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Harald Schilly]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

this is not a bug, just a feature requst. sometimes i want to delete the
trailing end in the URL bar. BACKSPACE deletes only 1 letter, CTRL-BACKSPACE
could do it better, if it would delete the entire word (backwards till the last
"."  or "/" )

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter URL, cursor focus after last letter
2.press CTRL-BACKSPACE
3.last direcory or last filename should be deleted instead of only 1 letter (or
nothing, whats currently the case)

Expected Results:
delete last directory

http://www.url.com/url/url/file.html (cursor after the l)
CTRL-BACKSPACE
http://www.url.com/url/url/file. (cursor now after the .)
CTRL-BACKSPACE
http://www.url.com/url/url/ (cursor now after the /)

Comment 1

[Stewart Campbell]

Just wondering, what is the point in returning to the last . ?

What would make more sense to me is:

http://www.url.com/url/url/file.html (cursor after the l)
CTRL-BACKSPACE
http://www.url.com/url/url/ (cursor now after the /)
CTRL-BACKSPACE
http://www.url.com/url/ (cursor now after the /)

That would be much more useful in my opinion.

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

This is either a dup of 98546 "Better word-break detection (double-clicking,
Control+arrow keys, Control+Backspace/Delete)" or 50255 "some control key
sequences don't generate the correct event"

One problem is to recognize properly the delimiters of each word (currently it
would delete the whole url) and then make sure that Ctrl + backspace is
functional although bug 50255 is mainly about Ctrl+enter it mentions that also
Ctrl + backspace doesn't work due to the same reason.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98546 ***

Comment 3

[Harald Schilly]

> Just wondering, what is the point in returning to the last . ?

okay, not necessary at the ending, but if you have
http://www.url1.com/
and you want to change ".com" to ".edu" or enter a completely different url, 
and you want to begin after the "http://www." this could be nice.

Comment 4

[:deanis74]

vrfy dupe