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Bug 127288 - ignores keyboard preferences
ignores keyboard preferences
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95494
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Marco Pesenti Gritti
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-18 12:54 UTC by Edd Dumbill
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Edd Dumbill 2003-11-18 12:54:53 UTC 
Fwd'd from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218551

From: tom <tmb-debian-bugs@lumo.com>


I set my keyboard preferences in Gnome to "Emacs".  Epiphany is
honoring that in its URL location bar, but it is ignoring my
prefereces where it most matters to me, inside text entry boxes
in web pages; instead, it reverts to Windows default bindings
(e.g., Control-A selects the whole text--very, very annoying).

Even if this is due to the use of the Mozilla rendering engine
in Epiphany, Mozilla itself uses Emacs bindings under UNIX, so 
the underlying code is clearly capable of using Emacs bindings.
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-11-18 16:17:59 UTC 
This is a gtk issue (I'll let someone other decide if it's a bug or
not). Prolly we already reassigned a bug like this to them ... we need
to find it again I guess.
Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-11-18 17:46:31 UTC 
Could you provide an example of key combination that doesnt work ? /me
is not an emacs user ;)
Comment 3 tmb-debian-bugs 2003-11-18 19:02:28 UTC 
To reproduce:

-- type some text into an input field
-- hit Control-A

With Emacs bindings, the cursor should go to the 
beginning of the line.

With Windows bindings, the cursor selects the entire text inside
the field (and the next keystroke will erase it all).

Another example specific to Epiphany is that Control-B brings
up the bookmark window with Windows-like bindings, while it should
move backwards one character with Emacs bindings.
Comment 4 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-11-18 20:15:08 UTC 
Oh it's not that they doesnt work, just that menubar has priority over
other controls. Dup of a gtk bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95494 ***