14347 - [PP]regression-backspace doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[esther]

Using 19990920 build on linux, backspacing in New Msg window doesn't work.  I
have to select the text then hit backspace button to remove the text from the
field.   When I do that and then send, I get boxes where the backspaces were
tried.  An example of a header from this scenario:

In the Inbox of 4.x I see the subject as:
"bb|||back space not working"
It should be:
 "backspace not working"
In the message header I see: a square before [e-mail] and then 3 more
squares.

This happens in the subject and the body too.  Can't check Mac yet, it's not
working for me, Windows is OK.   This is extremely annoying when composing
messages

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Seems to be an editor problem, reassign to buster

Comment 2

[lchiang]

I think this is happening on all Linux dialogs where there are text fields.
Fenella was seeing this also.  This may not pertain just to the editor.

cpratt - have you seen this on the browser side?

Comment 3

[lchiang]

Pls ignore my previous comment.  I was thinking of some other bug.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to akkana; set to M11.
Akkana--I am fixing a similar bug on Mac.  The editor code is explicitly checking
for charCode == 0 before checking for backspace keycode.  Can you check to see if
gtk is setting the charcode to 0? (that was the problem on Mac)

Comment 5

[cpratt]

cpratt sez he's seen this before & that it's likely a dupe of another bug filed
by phillip.

Comment 6

[Akkana Peck]

Fixed yesterday.  Part of the continuing key event spec war.

Comment 7

[fenella]

Linux (1999-10-13-08 m11) commercial
Win32 (1999-10-13-09 m11) commercial
Mac (1999-10-13-08 m11) commercial
This problem has been fixed. It was a Linux bug. But I checked all platforms
anyway