319783 - macintosh users should be able to have emacs key bindings too.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 229473

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Joanna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

Many macintosh users are unix users and would like decent keyboard control, like we had under linux.  As has already been discussed (I don't know what happened to the old bug) many other tools allow emacs binding via control while leaving in apple commands on the apple/command key.  Like linux, this should obviously be a preference (and not the default one), as many users won't know emacs.  But it is unbelievably frustrating knowing the code is already there & works in the linux version & we just can't have access to it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229473 ***

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Joanna, the patch in bug 229473 was not granted permission to land on the branch (seamonkey 1.0/firefox 1.5). So, in order to see it in action you'll have to use a SeaMonkey trunk build - or modify platformHTMLBindings.xml yourself.