219542 - <home> and <end> keys not working in mail composition

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

When composing an email on my PB G4, the <home> and <end> keys (fn+< or fn+>)
are not working. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.write an email
2.hit <home> or <end> with the cursor in the middle of one line


Actual Results:  
nothing.

Expected Results:  
jump to the beginning (or end) of the current line

already existed in 1.3.1 and 1.4

Comment 1

[Eyal Rozenberg]

WFM with seamonkey 2004-09-28 build 5 and Thunderbird 0.8, on Windows XP. Tested
both HTML and plaintext mail.

Comment 2

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

reopening as this bug is not about WinXP, nor Windows at all. It is MacOS X and
still does not work in "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-AT;
rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817", will test it in 1.8a4 soon.

Comment 3

[Hiro]

*** Bug 279822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[beg4]

Reproducable all the time also.  I'm also on a PowerBook G4, MacOS 10.3.8.  Is
this only a PowerBook issue?  Can someone check on a different keyboard?

Comment 5

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The problem seems /not/ to be Mozilla's actual key recognition, as the keyboard
test page <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50255> shows correct key
codes for Fn+<-/Fn+-> (and even for the Fn+F-Keys that do not work as expected
from other platforms, eg. F9 should open the sidebar).

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Shawn M. Jones]

I have collected all of the bugs that display these symptoms under Bug 389768.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jay, do you see this?

Comment 9

[Jay Moran (jaym/lazvon)]

version 3.0a2pre (2008062703)

fn+(right arrow), which should be END, moves to the scrollbar to the BOTTOM. fn+(left arrow), which should be HOME, moves the scrollbar to the TOP. This is the same functionality in Firefox 3.0 and the nightly build of Thunderbird I am using.

The keys do not appear to have anything to do with cursor placement, only scrollbar placement. When I am in an Text Input Box (like the one I'm typing in right this second), the keys do not do anything at all if there is no scroll bar. Once a scrollbar appears though, then the keys have the same TOP/BOTTOM scrollbar functionality.

Perhaps the correct functionality is if you are in a Text Input Box, the keys should perform as the original report requests. Makes sense to me at least. But I've never used these keys for either thing.

I will say, in Thunderbird CTRL-A moves your cursor to the beginning of your current line and CTRL-E moves you to the end of your current line.

Comment 10

[:aceman]

Is this bug still valid after all the years.
The reporter mentions de-AT locale (maybe also keyboard) on Mac OS X.

Comment 11

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

fn+left arrow/right arrow does nothing but CMD+left arrow/right arrow which are the default keys for this functionality. Maybe this has changed in this 10 years.

Comment 12

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

Yes, I can confirm these key combinations work also on a German MacOS X 10.11, in recent release versions of both Seamonkey and Thunderbird.
The dedicated "home" and "end" keys on the fullsize Apple keyboard still don't work, but they also don't work in Apple applications, so I guess that's "broken by design".