615740 - Ctrl-Shift-Arrow won't move the cursor in contenteditable regions.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P1)

Description

[Matt Whelan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12

Ctrl-Shift-Left Arrow or -Right Arrow won't move the cursor in contenteditable regions.  It should move the selection focus by words.  Shift-arrow works (selects by character), as does ctrl-arrow (moves by word).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php
2. Click inside the example editor, in the middle of a sentence.
3. Press ctrl-shift-rightArrow
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
The word after the cursor should become selected, and the selection focus should be on the right.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.4, and this error appeared in an update this morning.

Comment 1

[Matt Whelan]

Also occurs in GMail, and other rich text fields.

Comment 2

[Aryeh Gregor (:ayg) (no longer with Mozilla)]

(In reply to Matt Whelan from comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12)
> Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12)
> Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12

This suggests that you're testing in Firefox 3.6, which is extremely old.  I tested in 15.0.1, which was the latest stable version until a couple of days ago, as well as in nightly 18.0a1 (2012-10-08), and both of them worked as expected.  Could you test in the latest nightly from http://nightly.mozilla.org/ and report if it works the way you want?  If so, you'll get the fix as soon as you upgrade to a more recent version.  According to <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-January/001544.html>, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS should be using the latest stable Firefox version if your system is up-to-date.

Thanks for your report!

Comment 3

[Matt Whelan]

Firefox 3.6 was current when I reported the issue.  Thank you for verifying that it has been fixed at some point in the last eleven major releases.  You can close the issue.

Comment 4

[Aryeh Gregor (:ayg) (no longer with Mozilla)]

Oh, hah, my bad -- I didn't notice the almost-two-year time lapse between when this was reported and when I was CC'd!  I assumed it was recent and didn't check the dates.  Thanks again for the report.  :)