369629 - Ctrl+bksp / Ctrl+del on GTK Widgets deletes too much?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190615

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Ruibal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070206 Minefield/3.0a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0

On Win32, Control+Backspace deletes a "word".  GTK does this too, but "words" are delimited differently.  

In Windows/Aqua, words are defined as one or more alphanumerics followed by zero or more nonalphanumerics.

In gtk/qt, words are defined as one more more nonwhitespace followed by zero or more whitespace.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a URL into the Location Bar (e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&format=guided )
2. Press End to move your cursor to the end/deselect the entire URL
3. Press Control+Backspace

Actual Results:  
On linux, the resulting URL will be blank.


Expected Results:  
In windows and OSX(camino, alt+backspace), the resulting URL will be:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&format=



It's not really a bug, it just makes it annoying to use firefox on linux when I'm used to windows.  And it's convenient when you want to delete part of a URL, not the whole thing.

Maybe it shouldn't be the default behavior, but there should be a way to get the same results on both platforms.

Maybe there could be something in about:config to adjust this behavior on the XUL widgets?

The same behavior occurs with control+delete, but with the following 'word' instead of the preceding.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

You can set stop_at_punctuation to true to get the Windows behavior.