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Re: mozilla doesn't honor emacs line-edits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Wed May 25 17:41:41 2005
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:41:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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This worked for me:
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Robert A Basch wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:11, Angie Kelic wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> mozilla and firefox now use the GTK key theme setting to
> determine whether emacs key bindings are used, as noted in:
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_%28Firefox%29
>
> [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.]
>
> They seem to have gotten quite a few complaints about the
> way this changed, e.g. see:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260572
>
> Note that we could change the setting system-wide by adding
> it to the Athena GConf schemas, if people think this change
> will be too much of a support burden. (Hopefully doing so
> would not break other applications). Otherwise, maybe it
> should be mentioned in the release notes.
>
> Bob
>
