51947 - "prefill form" should not use 'f' accelerator on edit menu

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P4)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Alt-e,f is hardwired into many brains as "find" (not ctrl-f because of 
notepad).  If a program puts the find command somewhere else or does not 
provide the command, it's best to not have another option on the edit menu with 
the 'f' accelerator -- especially not something that might do things the user 
didn't intend to do.  Mozilla currently has alt-e-f set to "prefill form".

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Good catch, Jesse. [Platform/OS --> All]

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

so what should it be changed to?

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

How about m? I don't think that's widely used in `Edit' menus.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Oops, notepad uses alt-s, f, like Mozilla.  But alt-e, f is still very common.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: [patch] change accesskey

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

fyi, the prefillCmd.key in the patch isn't used, so I didn't bother changing 
it.  morse, please review.  cc alec for sr  

Comment 7

[Stephen P. Morse]

Sure, it's as good (or as bad) as any.  r=morse

Comment 8

[Alec Flett]

sr=alecf

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Fix checked in.

Comment 10

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...