289536 - Alt+Shift+Backspace in text boxes should be "Redo"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 StumbleUpon/1.9993
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 StumbleUpon/1.9993

Normally Windows applications say in their menu that Undo and Redo are Ctrl+Z
and Ctrl+Y, respectively. However, Microsoft also consistently implements the
alternative key combinations Alt+Backspace (Undo) and Alt+Shift+Backspace (Redo).

In Firefox, Alt+Backspace works, but Alt+Shift+Backspace doesn't. Please add
this shortcut for "Redo".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

Attachment: Patch to map Alt+Shift+Backspace to "redo"

Patch affects inputFields, textAreas, and editor, but only on Windows.  Should we do the same on Unix?

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Comment on attachment 212188 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to map Alt+Shift+Backspace to "redo"

r=me from a UI perspective, code is fine, but needs SR as well due to where this lives

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 212188 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to map Alt+Shift+Backspace to "redo"

sr=bzbarsky.

Since we don't do this for undo on Unix, we shouldn't for Redo either.  Adding both should be contingent on seeing whether other apps do it.  I suspect we don't want to do it.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

mozilla/content/xbl/builtin/win/platformHTMLBindings.xml 	1.24