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Re: mozilla doesn't honor emacs line-edits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rolfe)
Tue May 24 16:07:20 2005
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Cc: Angie Kelic <sly@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
From: Alex Rolfe <arolfe@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:06:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1116877006.27008.86.camel@anhedonia.mit.edu> (Robert A.
Basch's message of "Mon, 23 May 2005 15:36:47 -0400")
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Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Mozilla used to obey emacs key bindings in the URL box
> > (like ctrl-a to go to the beginning of the line, ctrl-k
> > to delete the line, etc).
> >
> > It doesn't do this anymore. I don't know if it's a change
> > in mozilla or a change in something we did.
> [The proper way to set the preference mentioned there is to
> use either gconf-editor (GUI) or gconftool-2 (command line)
> to change the key "/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme"
> from "Default" to "Emacs", and then restart the browser.
> This works for both mozilla and firefox, as well as possibly
> other GTK applications which look at the setting.]
Using just gconftool-2 didn't work; I had to add "gtk-key-theme-name =
"Emacs"" to my .gtkrc-2.0 to make the keybindings work again.
Alex
