272739 - Ctrl-U pops Page Source window (not a bug, but interface inconsistency)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259810

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Daemon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041129 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041129 Firefox/1.0

Ctrl-U is not the right way to see page source, because this key sequence in
UN*X is traditionally erases the whole line, being edited. For the same reason,
Ctrl-W
is not very good for "Close" command, because it's used for erase-word-backwards
shortcut. While the second shortcut is not very often used (by me), but the first
one is very useful in the following situation: I have some text selected in some
XWindows window, for example the hyperlink address and I want to paste it to the
Location field, that is not empty. Then I need to erase the location field
completely. So I'm forced to use backspace/delete keys to erase all characters.
I can not select the whole line by double-click and then press delete key,
because it will replace my XWindows selection with the contents of Location
field. The same thing is for any editable non-empty field.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl-U.
2. See Page Source dialog

Actual Results:  
Page Source dialog appears.

Expected Results:  
It should display Page Source dialog, so it's not a real bug, but interface
inconsistency.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259810 ***