174453 - Better word selection with CTRL key for Location Bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 98546

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Reif]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Stop Reading My Stats; RedHat -1.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla v1.2a

One of the nicer features of IE is its ability to allow easy keyboard-only
editing of URIs in the address bar.  One of the ways this is accomplished is
with CTRL modification of the behavior of keyboard-controlled highlighting.

A short summary of IE's block-highlight behavior:
if ( shift_key )
{
    if ( ctrl_key )
    {
        add the character immediately to the (arrow keypress direction) of the
cursor to the selected text;
        while ( next character in that direction is not an element of { '/',
'+', '&', '.', ':' )
        {
            add that character to the selection;
        }
    }
}

The rules are actually a little more complicated than that, but that'd be one
heck of a start, and would really help out all the IE power users trying to
migrate to Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Dan Reif]

Eek, my pseudocode has parse errors in the while()... you get the idea, though.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

dupe of bug 125172 or bug 98546

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

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yep, dup.