79409 - ctrl+[shift]+left/right in location bar should stop more often

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98546

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel H. S.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050515

Perhaps add a simple enchancement so that when in the URL field when you hit
ctrl left or ctrl right the cursur skips to the next / or the the next . etc...
IE does this.  Netscape earlier versions operate the same way as mozilla (they
go all the way to the beginning or the end)
When you hit ctrl + shift + left or right it will highlight the entire URL. 
Maybe could change this so that it only highlights by section of the URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  Described above

Expected Results:  Described above

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is UI design for now.. Once we decide what we want to do, the keyboard nav
people can do it.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 79421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

As a first approximation, I'd say ctrl+left and ctrl+right should stop after 
each character from "/?=.&+, " (maybe with a few more punctuation characters 
added).

I'm not sure what to do with consecutive stop characters.  IE never stops 
between consecutive stop characters, which works well for most URLs.  IE's 
behavior is only annoying when I want to chop off the random part at the end of 
http://www.slashdot.org/?=tn32hb94, because it doesn't stop anywhere 
inside ".org/?=".  That's probably just my fault for using a bad random-URL 
format, though.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I think this is actually a duplicate of bug 16352, which should be resummarized 
to include keyboard navigation and deletion as well as selection. Zach, what 
say you?

Comment 5

[Steve Chapel]

Also looks like a dup of 76619.

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

-> blake, who I stuck with 76619

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 70578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

usability, 0.9.4.

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16352 ***

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

let's try that again.

Comment 12

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

*** Bug 103332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Daniel H. S.]

No access to 16352...seems a little odd
Bug is also not yet fixed!

Comment 14

[Daniel H. S.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98546 ***