519000 - Most keyboard shortcuts and arrows do not work; Snow Leopard Mac OS 10.6.1

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 516579

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[steveg_va]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_1; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Build Identifier: 8.0b7 (Penelope/Eudora)

I had posted about the recipient's name, rather than the sender's name, appearing in the Who column in 8.0b7, and received instructions to change it. So, I was happy with 8.0b7, UNTIL I realized that almost any keyboard shortcut like CMD-A, CMD-S, CMD-C, CMD-V, as well as input from Textpander (for example: btu => BTU) would not take effect in my messages (in the case of Textpander expansions, I could hear the background "pop" sound, but there was no change to the message). Also, compound keying to get non-ASCII characters (like OPT-E followed by E for é) did not work, although I saw that they did appear in the sent message (???) if not on my screen. So, I have downgraded back to 8.0b6 once again. So far, the only thing that seems not to work in 8.0b6 is CMD-R for re-wrap text. I can live with that. In case it is not clear, I was able to get the operations done (cut, paste, select all, etc.) by manually invoking the commands from the drop-down menus.  Oh, I just remembered that the arrow keys do not work in 8.0b7, either.

Thanks,

--Steve (Eudora user since 1994)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to ender CMD-C, CMD-V, CMD-R, arrow keys, multiple key entry for non-ASCII chars.
2.works from menu, but not from keyboard
3.replacing text abbreviations with Textpander does not work, either.  Works fine in 8.0b6
Actual Results:  
Nada.  Zilch.  Nichevo.

Expected Results:  
Copy, Paste, Re-wrap, etc.

I had used Eudora for so many many years, and was so content with it until it stopped sending messages unless it was re-started.  Just queued them up, but would not send.  Then, if I quit and re-started the app., all the messages went.  So, I found 8.0bx, and I wish that I could make it work because, for all its faults, I still prefer it to Mac Mail.