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Ctrl+U with Mozilla and Firefox

Posted by Dumbbell on Friday January 21, 2005 at 12:00 AM

Since Mozilla 1.7.5 (maybe 1.7.4) and Firefox 1.0PR, the shortcut Ctrl+U doesn't work as expected when used in a textfield, a textarea or the location bar. Usualy, under Unix, it used to erase the entire line. Now in these browsers, it opens the View source window.

Hopefully, someone posted a comment in the entry #260188 of bugzilla.mozilla.org that solved this problem!

To explain quickly, one must edit the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and add these lines:

binding "gtk-unix-text-entry"
{
        bind "u" {
                "move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, -1, 0)
                "delete-from-cursor" (paragraph-ends, 1)
        }
        bind "w" {
                "delete-from-cursor" (word-ends, -1)
        }
}

class "GtkEntry" binding "gtk-unix-text-entry"
class "GtkTextView" binding "gtk-unix-text-entry"

This will bind the shortcut again in Mozilla, Firefox and every Gtk+ 2.0-based softwares. For Microsoft Windows and MacOS, mozillazine.org brings another solution.

Don't hesitate to read the bug's comment, it may have more informations

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