271692 - autocomplete entries can't be deleted with shift+delete, must use shift+del

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[John Lemon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

On the Macintosh platform, there are both "delete" and "del" keys. The "delete"
key is far more commonly used, including for deleting files in Finder, et
cetera. To delete an entry from a form entry's autocomplete list, one is
supposed to select the item and press shift+delete. However, on the Mac,
shift+delete does not work for this, and one must use shift+del. The more
Mac-centric shift-delete should be supported.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a couple items to a form entry field.
2. Try to delete one with shift+delete.
3. Try to delete one with shift+del.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens as a result of step 2. Step 3 succeeds in removing the item from
the autocomplete list.

Expected Results:  
The item should have been removed as a result of step 2.

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Attachment: patch

on mac, backspace is expected to be another delete key (in any case which is
not text-editing)

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Comment on attachment 167770 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

OK, OK. what are first-review and secod-review. when do i need the second one?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Comment on attachment 167770 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

whoever set up the flags used Calendar as a base.  Meh.  This is enough, silly
Macs.

Comment 4

[Steffen Wilberg]

Checking in mozilla/toolkit/content/widgets/autocomplete.xml;
/cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/content/widgets/autocomplete.xml,v  <--  autocomplete.xml
new revision: 1.34; previous revision: 1.33

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 290917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 290917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[mark a. foltz]

in the meantime, apple laptop users can use fn-shift-delete to emulate
shift-del. i tried this and it works.