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Bug 119925 - Please change "close" shortcut to anything but Ctrl-w
Please change "close" shortcut to anything but Ctrl-w
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 100636
Product: galeon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: User interface
1.3.7
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: galeon-maint
Yanko Kaneti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-15 02:18 UTC by nveber
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description nveber 2003-08-15 02:18:05 UTC
Hi,

Any unix user will tell you about two very common key combinations.  Ctrl-U
will delete a whole line, and Ctrl-W will delete a word.  This is embedded
at a kernel level in the terminal handling code.  It works universally in
every unix I have ever seen.  A major problem occurs when someone familiar
with these key combinations tires to type in galeon.  While filling out
forms such as this bug report form, one might be tempted to use Ctrl-W to
fix spelling and other mistakes, only to end up losing all their work,
because galeon will close the window/tab or even the whole browser.

I think the severity of this bug should be higher than "normal" because of
the data loss involved, but I'll leave that decision up to you.

Thanks,

Norbert
Comment 1 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2003-08-25 12:19:23 UTC
The shortcut won't be changed from Ctrl+w, as that is specified by the
gnome hig. However the real problem is that the emacs key bindings are
getting ignored. We already have a bug for that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100636 ***