Re: editing URL entry

Eivind Tagseth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* [email protected] <[email protected]> [030619 16:00]:
> Why are my keybindings (Emacs-like) not respected in the URL bar?  In web 
> page entry boxes (i.e. Google's search, forms) CTRL-{E,A,K} work fine.  In 
> the URL entry, they don't.  CTRL- K and E do nothing.  CTRL-A selects all 
> rather than going to the beginning of the line.  Why the inconsistent 
> behavior?

It's a gnome 2-thing.  Very annoing.  You can actually _almost_ fix this.
In Gnome's keyboard settings, you can set your keyboard to be Emacs-like.
If you do this, then Ctrl-E and Ctrl-U will work as intended.  Ctrl-A
still selects all, since the menu shortcuts takes preference over
the text field shortcuts.  I find this really annoying.  Why can't Ctrl-A
be handled like TAB?

One last note:  The emacs-settings don't work unless gnome-settings-daemon
is running.  I'm not sure who's responsible for starting this one, but
I only use the gnome-panel, and then gnome-settings-daemon isn't started.



Eivind


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