Bug#402401: firefox^Wiceape, emacs, and word [re]move

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri Feb 16 20:07:47 CET 2007


On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:40:48PM -0500, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> retitle 402401 iceape: please provide forward/backward word [re]move
> reassign 402401 iceape-browser
> found 402401 1.0.7-2
> thanks
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Sorry for the delay in response.  I enabled emacs keybindings, but they
> don't do what I want.
> 
> There's no way of [re]moving convenient, small components of a URL
> longer than a letter.  ^W for example removes the entire kb.m.o URL
> included in README.Debian Re: emacs bindings.
> 
> What I mean by convenient: it should be easy to munge urls without
> holding keys down for more than about a second.  I'm not sure of the
> details, but other browsers do pretty well.  I think removing the regex
> match "[A-Za-z]+|[0-9]+|." would work, but I'm also tempted to add that
> multiple characters should be removed every time.  Perhaps
> ".*?([A-Za-z0-9]+)".
> 
> In the original bug submit mail, I meant: "^Backspace" and "^Delete",
> rather than ^Esc.
> 
> I don't see why control+[del|bs|left|right] can't do this by default,
> though it would be sufficient if there were some mechanism to enable it
> with some key combination..
> 
> epiphany, dillo, galeon and IE, all do it.

I wonder how they do... are they all implementing it themselves ?
Iceape/Iceweasel, etc. just use the gtk widget... Could that be a good
candidate for reassigning to libgtk ?

Mike





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