714036 - TB: Help Keyboard Shortcuts broken(?)/wrong/incomplete in documentation: F1 vs. Ctrl+?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Keyboard Shortcuts list (1) currently has this:

|Help||{for win}{button Ctrl} + {button ?}{/for}{for mac}{button Command} + {button ?}{/for}{for linux}{button F1}{/for}
|-

Which translates to:

Help on...
Windows: Ctrl+?
Mac: Command+?
Linux: F1

For windows (I'm on XP), this doesn't apply. Ctrl+? does nothing, and F1 works but is not listed. Ludo, can you comment if that's a bug in the product, or documentation only, or both? Iow, should Ctrl+? work to show help on windows?

(1) https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Thomas how's the situation with Firefox ?

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #1)
> Thomas how's the situation with Firefox ?

Firefox current and nightly do not have a keyboard shortcut for help.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Ludo, can you comment for TB9 if Ctrl+? actually opens Help on MAC?
Does F1, if used as a function key, do anything on the MAC?

sreepriya, what about Linux?
- does F1 really show help on Linux?
- does Ctrl+? do anything?

FTR: I have fixed the wrong entry for Windows with today's major revision (1)

|Help||{for win, linux}{key F1}{/for}{for mac}{key Command+?}{/for}

(1) https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts/revision/5614

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #2)
> (In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #1)
> > Thomas how's the situation with Firefox ?
> 
> Firefox current and nightly do not have a keyboard shortcut for help.

Hitting F1 on Linux (FF10) brings up Help... and I'm pretty sure Cmd+? does on Mac. It does depends on where in the ui you are, though (try and hit F1 in the prefwindow)

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Can someone confirm that on MAC, Command+? from main 3pane triggers TB help in browser?

I had fixed this at the time per comment 3:

TB Shortcut key to trigger application help (from main UI):

Win: F1
Linux: F1
MAC: Command + ?