164362 - Alt+A to select all mail messages brings up "Search Messages" window instead

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Tan Zheng Da]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020815
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020815

I have configured Mozilla to respond to Alt+ keyboard shortcuts instead of
Ctrl+.  In the Mail/News window, I try to highlight all messages (in the top
right pane) by clicking on one of the messages, then pressing Alt+A.  Instead of
selecting all messages, the "Search Messages" window pops up.  This was working
fine in Mozilla 1.0.  I also see this broken in 1.1 beta, as well as 1.0.1 rc1 here.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set: user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18); and user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0);
2.Start Mozilla, go to Menu: Window|Mail & Newsgroups
2.In the Mail & Newsgroups window, Select an Inbox with multiple messages
3.In the right upper pane, select a message
4.Press Alt+A to select all messages

Actual Results:  
The "Search Messages" window comes up.

Expected Results:  
All messages in the upper right pane should have been selected.

I also saw this problem in 1.1 beta.  This is a feature I frequently use, and it
was working fine in 1.0 so something must have broken here.

Comment 1

[Tan Zheng Da]

Well, the problem extends to Mozilla 1.1 final as well, I've just discovered.

-- 
tzd.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The advanced button's accesskey was added between 1.0 and 1.0.1 and it's
stealing the Alt-A.

On the trunk a new pref was added, ui.key.generalAccessKey (bug 136696) which
might work for this.

Comment 3

[Tan Zheng Da]

Thanks Dan, I have confirmed that these three prefs together make it work again
in Mozilla 1.1:

user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18);
user_pref("ui.key.generalAccessKey", 0);
user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0);

Perhaps the Release Notes http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.1/#general
should be updated to reflect this?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 147513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Anthony Lanni]

         For version 1.2.1; Alt-A opens the search window, Control-A selects all
messages.  Also, in a compose window; clicking on Edit=>Select All will select
all text, but Alt-A does nothing - and ghosts out the Select All option in the
Edit Menu.  I'll try the three preference settings listed below and report my
results.

thx
           anthony

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tony, WFM?

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> tony, WFM?
> 

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008052101 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

Yes: here, in the Messages List pane of the 3-pane Mail & News window, Alt+A and Ctrl+A both select all messages, regardless of whether the Search Bar is displayed or not.

Considering comment #3, I have the following in about:config :
ui.key.accelKey             default       integer      17
ui.key.generalAccessKey     default       integer      -1
ui.key.menuAccessKey        default       integer      18
All other ui.key.<something> prefs are also at their respective defaults.

Comment 8

[Anthony Lanni]

    Both Alt-a and Ctrl-a select all messages in T-bird 2.x.

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

This has been fixed somewhere along the way...