Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
what is the "select-all" keystroke in... I guess gnome? don't tell me it doesn't exist.
CNTL-A. Problem is that we're talking X style selects. Select something it is automatically coped into the C&P buffer. So you can't do a Windows style CNTL-A, CNTL-C, click, CNTL-A, CNTL-V since the CNTL-V would yield the contents you're trying to get rid of.
Firefox setting CNTL-U to "upload manager" was pretty dumb since CNTL-U is unix' default for "clear field". :/
I seem to recall that older builds of Firefox and Thunderbird used the "Unix"-style (I believe the same shortcuts as used by GNU readline) when run in Linux. For example, if you started typing something in the address bar, a CTRL-U would clear what you had typed. If you were entering a serch query on Google's homepage, a CTRL-W would delete the previous word. I get really irritated now and then because I still forget sometimes. I will type in a 10-word Google query and hit CTRL-W to delete the last word I typed and wham. My tab is closed. If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it.
-Roberto Sanchez
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