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