481801 - Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Del/Shift+Ins for copy/cut/paste dont work on Bespin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Key Bindings, defect, P2)

Description

[Dion Almaer]

James McFarlane said:

"Being left-handed, I never use Cmd/Ctrl-C X V. I would have to take my hand off the mouse to do that. I use CTRL-Insert (copy) and SHIFT-Insert (paste).

This works in almost every Windows app, except for those by Adobe for some reason. It would be nice if it could work here too."

We need to test this out:

- Does WebKit fire on/copy/paste for these?
- Does Firefox think that these are the right events in the text area? In which case we just need to wire up the key binding

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

See also bug 143735.

Comment 2

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is a mass migration from Mozilla Labs :: Bespin to Bespin :: Editor.

Comment 3

[Biju]

Actually Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Del/Shift+Ins for copy/cut/paste, shift+arrow for select was the original MS shortcuts which pre-dates even MS-Win. So I also never used Ctrl-C X V, which I started seeing only from MS-Edit. (MS-Edit, still exist on Vista, you can run it by command "edit" on DOS prompt)

(In reply to comment #0)
> This works in almost every Windows app, except for those by Adobe for some
This is because those keys are built in to Win API controls, but for Ctrl-C X V actually programmer has to write a one line of code to enable it.

Comment 4

[Biju]

Alt+Backspace - Undo on windows

Comment 5

[Kevin Dangoor]

ACETRANSITION

The Skywriter project has merged with Ajax.org's Ace project (the full server part of which is their Cloud9 IDE project). Background on the change is here:

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywriter-has-been-merged-into-ace/

The bugs in the Skywriter product are not necessarily relevant for Ace and quite a bit of code has changed. For that reason, I'm closing all of these bugs. Problems that you have with Ace should be filed in the Ace issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues