153184 - [RFE] URL bar support Ctrl-Backspace for word-at-once removal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98546

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Jan Moesen]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614
BuildID:    2002061408

One of the things I like about IE's address bar (as it is called over there :-),
is the Ctrl-Backspace feature that allows you to edit the URL more quickly.
Here's an example:

I've got a URL, say:
  http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/unconfirmed.html

Now suppose I want to go to 
  http://www.mozilla.org/docs/

Then here's what I can do in IE:

1. Move my caret to the end of the URL (press Alt-D, then End)
2. Press Ctrl-Backspace once, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/unconfirmed.
3. Ctrl-Backspace, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/
4. (You guessed it:) Ctrl-Backspace, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/quality/
5. (See the pattern?) Ctrl-Backspace, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/
6. Yay! I can now type docs/ and press Enter, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/docs/

Now in Mozilla, that would be:
1. Move my caret to the end of the URL (press Ctrl-L, then End)
2. Press Backspace once, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/unconfirmed.htm
3. Backspace ad nauseam et ad RSI, finally resulting in:
   http://www.mozilla.org/
4. Finally! I can now type docs/ and press Enter, result:
   http://www.mozilla.org/docs/

For those of you who like numbers:

    IE: 12 keystrokes (from Alt-D to Enter)
   moz: 37 keystrokes (from Ctrl-L to Enter)

Now isn't this a cool feature that would yield a huge increase in performance? :-)

Finally, it should be noted that this seems to be the default behaviour for
regular text boxes in IE and Windows XP as well.

I tried this on both 1.0 and 1.1a. It seems not too difficult to implement using
regexp word boundaries, but of course I am not the mozilla developer here. (A
good thing, too)

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

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