84168 - Ctrl+W does nothing if focus in address/subject area

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 72352

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2001-05-30-08: Linux RH 6.2
This is a linux only problem.

Overview: In a new message/compose window witht the cursor in the address area
or the Subject area, do a Ctrl+W.

Actual Results: Nothing happens. Other accelerators work such as Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+M,
Ctrl+P.
Expected Results: I would expect the new message/compose window to close.

Additional Information:
- Build 2001-05-31-04: WinMe, works as expected.
- Build 2001-05-31-08: Mac 9.04, works as expected.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

over to varada

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

the same goes for url-field (bug 84755)
Should these both be "keyboard navigation" instead?

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

change->nbaca 

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

I would like to see this fixed but realize that it's not a top priority since it 
only happens on linux with the cursor in the address or subject area. Ctrl+W 
works if it is in the body of the message.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 72352.  Also see bug 64828

Comment 7

[rob]

This is not even a bug.

Ctrl+W in the subject area does what it does everywhere else in any Unix
interface, and nearly everywhere else in Mozilla - it deletes the previous word.
Closing the window with Ctrl+W would be a bug.

I suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Using Ctrl+W to delete the previous word is convenient. I don't have a problem
setting this to Wontfix but I'll add jglick to the Cc: list so she is aware of
the issue.

Comment 9

[timeless]

nbaca, does ctrl-w delete words if there are words to delete? if not this bug 
should be fixed. and does alt-w close the window (optional prompt) if you're 
set to use alt as the accelerator? if not this should be fixed.

Comment 10

[Ninoschka Baca]

- ctrl+w deletes the previous word if the cursor is in the address/subject area.

- I went into Preferences, Debug and set the Accelerator key to 18 and the Menu
access key to 0. Alt+W now attempts to close the window which is what I would
expect. 

I then tried Ctrl+W in the body of the message but it didn't delete the previous
word, shouldn't this work? I suppose this would be a different bug.

Comment 11

[jglick]

cc'ing German and Aaron, since platform specific accelerators should be dealt 
with consistently across the product.

Comment 12

[Aaron Leventhal]

CC'ing resident UNIX keyboard prognosticator.
Akkana, what's you're take on this?

Comment 13

[Akkana Peck]

It's a known and longstanding problem, caused by the insistence on using ctrl
rather than alt as the accel key.  There's no solution as long as we have
conflicting key bindings (but changing your accel key to alt solves the problem
completely).  Eventually there should be an easier UI for changing keyboard
bindings, which would at least make it easy for people bothered by this to
change it.

Editor and mail compose windows are a little different (and that's also a known
problem): since focus is always in the content area, leaving the delete-word
binding active would have completely disabled the close-window menu, and that
was deemed unacceptable, so the binding was removed from the editor window
bindings (alas for people who use accel=alt, who could be happily using ctrl-W
without a conflict; so they have to define a custom binding).

Comment 14

[André Dahlqvist]

This must be a dupe of bug 72352.

Comment 15

[Ninoschka Baca]

Yes, it appears to be a dupe of bug# 72352.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72352 ***

Comment 16

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.