314101 - can't customize Find text: key bindings

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[steve rader]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

Using the procedure listed at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys
(unzip $app_dir/chrome/comm.jar and edit content/navigator/platformNavigationBindings.xul)
I am unable to rebind "key_find", "key_findAgain", and "key_findPrevious" so
the behave like vi:
      <handler event="keypress" key="/" command="key_find"/>
      <handler event="keypress" key="N" command="key_findAgain"/>
      <handler event="keypress" key="n" command="key_findPrevious"/>



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd $app_dir/chrome
2. unzip comm.jar
3. vi platformNavigationBindings.xul
4. add bindings above
5. cd ../..
6. zip -r -b content comm.jar content
7. start mozilla
8. Edit -> Find In This Page -> enter Find Text:
9. notice now 'n' does not 'find' the text


Actual Results:  
n does nothing (have type-ahead turned off)

Expected Results:  
n should find the next match

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

please try a more recent build.  1.7.x is only taking security fixes
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/contrib/latest-mozilla1.8/

Comment 2

[steve rader]

> please try a more recent build.  1.7.x is only taking security fixes

The situation seems to have gotten much worse.  With 1.7.8, I can rebind
keys with the "$app_dir/res/builtin/userHTMLBindings.xml" method and I
can rebind keys with the "unzip comm.jar, hack content/navigator/platformNavigationBindings.xul, rezip" method.  Alas,
*neither* method works with seamonkey 1.0b.

(This bug is a duplicate of 102993?)

I'm trying hard to not make any emotive comments--I hope it's obvious
that these are serious problems.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

Actually, the page you mentioned doesn't list platformNavigationBindings.xul as a file to modify.  It looks that the syntax listed on that page (<handler>) is appropriate for xml files and "key_find*" are not commands.  I added this to platformNavigationBindings.xul and got the effect you're looking for:

    <key id="key_find" key="n" command="Browser:FindAgain"/>

Comment 4

[steve rader]

> I added this to
> platformNavigationBindings.xul and got the effect you're looking for:
> 
>     <key id="key_find" key="n" command="Browser:FindAgain"/>

Hum.  Fwiw, I added these: 

    <key key="/" command="Browser:Find"/>
    <key key="n" command="Browser:FindAgain"/>
    <key key="n" command="Browser:FindPrev" modifiers="shift"/>

and "/" brings up "Find in ths Page" as expected.  But after I enter,
say, "bug" in the "Find text:" entry widget, and hit "n" in the browser
window does not "scroll to and highlight" the string "bug".  Further,
if I scroll to and highlight the string "bug" with the "Find" button
and then hit "n", the highlighted text goes from blue highlighting to
gray highlighting.i

Comment 5

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.