148406 - Ctrl r for reply is confusing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Martin Katz, Ph.D.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

Control R in mail means reply. In the browser, it means reload. This is confusing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page in browser. Press Ctrl+R
2. Open an e-mail message. Press Ctrl+R
3. Notice that they behave differently

Actual Results:  In the browser, the page is reloaded.
In e-mail, a new message is opened for a reply.

Comment 1

[Steve Simms]

This is standard behavior in nearly every graphical E-Mail program and web
browser.  To change this would cause far more confusion than leaving it as is.

Additionally, there shouldn't be a case where you would want to reload a message
(it shouldn't change) or reply to a web page, so Control-R doesn't need to have
the same function in both cases.