270001 - Ctrl-A doesn't select all text in text field: Moves to beginning of line instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257405

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Klaus Kusche]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041113

My Mozilla is built with GTK+ 2.4.9 (I don't know if this is GTK+-specific or not).

When focus is in a forms text field like the one I'm typing to now (no matter if
single- oder multiline), Ctrl-A moves the cursor to the beginning of the current
line instead of selecting all text in the field.

The "Select All" menu entry selects all text in the field, so the selection
basically works, but Ctrl-A is misinterpreted.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter text in a form text field
2. Hit Ctrl-A
3.

Actual Results:  
Cursor is at beginning of line, no text selected.

Expected Results:  
All text should have been selected.

Comment 1

[Klaus Kusche]

P.S.: Same problem for the URL field and all dialog text fields...

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

duplicate of bug 72352 / bug 257405; picking the latter. in 1.7.4 or .5 (and
1.8) mozilla should behave like you want it to. (unless you set the gtk pref to
use emacs keybindings)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257405 ***