694790 - Thunderbird does not support C-f, C-n, C-p, C-w of gtk-key-theme=Emacs

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Nobuto MURATA]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20111008085056

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set gtk-key-theme=Emacs
    $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme 'Emacs'
2. In composing area of new mail, pressed C-f (Control+F), C-n, C-p or C-w.


Actual results:

gtk-key-theme=Emacs is ignored:

  C-f: search dialogue is opened

  C-n: an another composing window is opened

  C-p: print dialogue is opended

  C-w: the window is closed



Expected results:

gtk-key-theme=Emacs is honored:

  C-f: <right> Move forward one character (forward-char).

  C-n: <down> Move down one screen line (next-line).

  C-p: <up> Move up one screen line (previous-line).

  C-w: <Ctrl>+<Delete> Kill region (backward-word).


NOTE:
  C-a: <Home>, C-e: <End>, C-b: <left> are already supported.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Does this works in Firefox ?

Comment 2

[Launchpad]

Nobuto MURATA added the following comment to Launchpad bug report 875315:

> Does this works in Firefox ?

Yes. I can use C-f, C-n, C-p or C-w as expected in textarea of web pages.
firefox	7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 on Ubuntu 11.10.

-- 
http://launchpad.net/bugs/875315

Comment 3

[:aceman]

I wonder how this may be implemented in Firefox.