Re: Galeon input unlike GNU readline

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:34:40AM -0400, John A. Martin wrote:
> Several months ago Galeon changed in such a way that typing into the
> location window, and into other input forms presented to the user,
> changed from behaving like an Emacs style readline input to something
> wildly different, confusing, and prone to drive to detraction an old
> Emacs dog that has trouble learning new tricks to do common things
> differently only in one seldom used though indispensable application.
> 
> I've seen bug reports, in Galeon or Debian Bugs, that I interpret as
> complaints similar to mine.  I interpret the responses I've seen as
> indicating that the Galeon developers acknowledge the change removing
> Emacs-like line editing but that they consider restoring Emacs style
> sanity to be very low among their priorities.  Is my interpretation
> accurate?  Would you expect to see an option restoring the old
> behavior any time soon?  Ever?
> 
> If the prospect is never, I guess I'll need to find another browser.
> I hope I won't have to do that because Galeon has been my preference
> in spite of a long wait for the hated behavior when entering/editing
> text to end.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions?

Sending to galeon-devel for their comments.

I guess the answer will be something like "this needs to be fixed in
gnome". Also, please note that galeon developers did not change or remove
the feature - galeon1.3 is a *rewrite* - all the excellent work of
galeon developers has been implementing features in galeon1.3, not
removing them. 

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