1532939 - Support Cmd + K to clear the console

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: Console, enhancement)

Description

[timonvanspronsen]

Attachment: Screen Recording 2019-03-06 at 11.44.12.mov

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

I opened the console (cmd+alt+i) and tried to clear the console using the keyboard shortcut: cmd+k

Actual results:

Instead of clearing the console (I'm focused on the console input) it changes the focus to the address bar and replaces the input of the address bar to ?.

Expected results:

It should've cleared the console.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Hello Tim, thanks for the report!
We do support <kbd>Ctrl+L</kbd> to clear the console.
Is there any places where we tell people to use <kbd>Cmd+K</kbd> ?

Comment 2

[timonvanspronsen]

Ah that makes sense, I think I remembered it wrong. That being said, cmd+k is the default way to clear the terminal on Mac (ctrl+l also works but cmd+k is more widely used if you search for "clear terminal mac"), also Chrome supports both cmd+k and ctrl+l.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

okay, I changed the bug title. Thanks for the explanation, I think it would be reasonable to have it.

Comment 4

[timonvanspronsen]

Thank you very much for taking it into consideration 🙏

Comment 5

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Assigning Helena as we discussed it over Slack

Comment 6

[Helena Moreno (aka helenatxu)]

Attachment: Bug 1532939 - Add Cmd + K support to clear the console on OSX. r=nchevobbe.

This is a common shortcut on OSX to clear terminal output, and something that Chrome does,
so it makes sense to implement it in our console as well.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f3448180f267
Add Cmd + K support to clear the console on OSX. r=nchevobbe.

Comment 8

[Bogdan Tara[:bogdan_tara | bogdant]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f3448180f267

Comment 9

[Irene Smith]

I've created an issue in MDN/Sprints for it: #1234

Comment 10

[Irene Smith]

This is not working in Dev 67.0b5 (on 3/28/19). When I hit Ctrl+K on Windows, the focus jumps to the search box and does the same in Firefox Developer 67.0b5 in Linux. Is this not implemented yet?

Comment 11

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Hello Irene, this is an OSX only change, I renamed the bug title to make it clearer.
Sorry about the confusion!

Comment 12

[Irene Smith]

Hello Irene, this is an OSX only change, I renamed the bug title to make it clearer.
Sorry about the confusion!

Thank you for confirming this. I appreciate it.(In reply to Nicolas Chevobbe from comment #11)

Comment 13

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

just cleaning ni, awesome work Helena!

Comment 14

[Irene Smith]

Documentation changes completed.

Please see: MDN Sprints Issue #1234