271548 - Clear quick Search should have keyboard access key (used to be Alt+C)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (20041103)

The Clear button before Thunderbird 0.8 was associated with Alt+C to clear the
Quick Search bar. Thunderbird 0.9 now has a red X button one can click to clear
the Quick Search bar in one step, but keyboard users are still stuck with
pressing Ctrl+K followed by Delete followed by Tab to achieve the same effect.
Can we bring the Alt+C shortcut back?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[dolphinling]

*** Bug 271547 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Couldn't find a dupe.  This was discussed a little in bug 255643; in fact, 
there's a patch which is supposed to clear the field on ESC.

Comment 3

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

I support this RFE.
When the focus is in the search field, I'd love to be able to reset the
search field using the Escape key just like in the type-ahead-find in Firefox.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Daniel Glazman (:glazou) from comment #3)

When the focus is in the search field, I'd love to be able to reset the search field using the Escape key.

Escape does work today.

wontfix?

Comment 5

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Yes, Escape works. Better than ALT+C as it's only one key.