On Sun 25 Aug 2024 at 10:10:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > So "some" shortcuts can be [...] disabled, but it doesn't tell you > > how. But maybe if there is a particular hotkey that's causing a > > problem, someone else might have had the same problem and written > > an add-on you can look for? > > Well, i'll be typing along, have most assuredly not done a ctl+a, but > all the text will high light, and the next keystroke deletes it all. > Sometimes I can recover with some undo's. Or the message goes away, > and half an hour later I notice there is an unsent msg in the outbox, > and it might be the disappeared msg, but not always. About 50% of the > time it might be a resurrection/read msg dated months ago. This > problem has survived 3 keyboards(this particular one is wired [ … ]
One course of action would be to use an add-on like exteditor, by which you can use an editor of choice for composing your emails. Obviously an editor without this SelectAll hotkey facility would be preferable, like emacs for example. I wonder whether it would let you use gedit (emails are always small files) or geany, which I think you've used in the past. [PS to Gene: just wondered whether you meant to reply only to me on the subject of screen locking, rather than to the list] Cheers, David.
