55851 - ctrl-a selects all text instead of moving to beginning of line

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59404

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

In the plain text mail compose window, ctrl-a will highlight all of the text in
the mail message.  The correct key binding for unix should be that ctrl-a will
go to the beginning of the line.  This used to work.

One of the things that I regularly do is to do a ctrl-a delete which usually
joins the current line to the previous.  However, since this has broken I keep
deleting the entire text of the mail message.

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

Adding jag; we have reports in bug 54399 that ctrl-K in text controls is also no
longer working.  Sounds like someone checked something in that horks the Unix
key bindings.

Ben changed something over the weekend regarding keyset names -- Ben, is it
possible that this killed the Unix key bindings?

Comment 2

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

*** Bug 59404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

Also, Ctrl-k used to be emacs-style kill-line, which would remove content on the
line, after the point on the first C-k, and on the second C-k it would remove
the '\n'...

Now it doesn't do the second part. Confusing, and annoying, if you're used to
the emacs key-bindings.

Comment 4

[Akkana Peck]

If it applies to one binding, it would probably apply to all of them (that had
dual definitions).

BTW, I set my accel key to alt and I'm not seeing this bug (on the trunk).  So
that might be a workaround, if you can live without having ctrl as the accel key
for other browser functions.  (If my emacs bindings didn't work, I wouldn't use
the app.)

Adding saari because it's probably a dup of his focus bug.

Comment 5

[saari (gone)]

Are all the platform bindings dead or just some specific ones?

Comment 6

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

The only one that I see is ctrl-a.  There might be others that I don't know
about but all the other key bindings I normally use work fine.

Comment 7

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Accepting

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

changing milestone to unknown.  It will get changed back when we figure out what
milestone to put this bug in.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 57078?

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is actually an editor bug.  Marking duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59404 ***

Comment 11

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

VERIFIED DUP.