From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99584138CD1 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C813E095A; Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 061ACE090B for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu36s-0003rK-KL for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 20:16:22 +0200 Received: from c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([24.118.110.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 20:16:22 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 20:16:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <55582C95.7080706@wht.com.au> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: ef2a692e-dd0b-4d77-b0f2-788d47813729 X-Archives-Hash: 58b47f58a356bb9ef7a3ac97cbfb5c22 On 2015-05-17, Andrew Lowe wrote: > I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as > a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or > search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted Yeat, I _hate_ that. > and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm > typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it > doesn't. I have to click into the appropriate edit box, highlight > the contents and start typing or hit either home/end and then start > deleting before typing my new URL. If, for example, the existing > text happens to be a google search string, this can be quite a bit > of text to delete. > > So my question, I suppose, is multipart: > > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? Yes. That's how text widgets always work on Unix. > 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour? Nope, that is the correct behavior. > 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long > URL's, such as a Google search results? It's not a problem. The way Windows works is a problem. On Linux, if I want to replace what's already there I either: 1) double-click on the URL to select it, then type the replacement. or 2) click in the text field, then hit Ctrl-A Ctrl-K, then type the replacement. The second option requires you have emacs keybindings enabled. Which you should. :) -- G