On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:40:48PM -0500, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
