Closed Bug 135410 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

copy-paste a part of the text of a link

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

References

Details

It is not possible to select a part of the text of a link to copy-paste it: Mozilla tries to do a drag'n-drop. Some other browsers use a special key (e.g. Shift) so that the user can select text instead of doing a drag'n-drop or a similar operation. Perhaps Mozilla should behave in the same way.
Looks like an obvious dupe of bug 118785 or bug 121442. I can select part of a link by holding down Alt.
Probably my mistake; this now works. Perhaps I hadn't tried all the special keys, though I thought I had. Anyway, Alt is rather unintuitive (IMHO) and sometimes not on the keyboard; I think this should be configurable.
Resolve as WORKSFORME.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
After having some problems on my Titanium (where for some reasons, I have no Alt key), I noticed that Mozilla takes the mod1 setting into account. So, if I want to use the Meta key for selecting a part of a link, I just have to do something like: $ xmodmap - clear mod1 add mod1 = Meta_L
*** Bug 121442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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