Bash keybindings in mozilla address box

[Harry Putnam]

I've been noticing on newer mozilla pkgs (currently mozilla-1.7.5-3)
that keybindings that used to work in the address box no longer work.

These were bash (emacs like) keybindings that work on the command line.

For example: Ctrl-k used to delete ahead of cursor.
             Ctrl-a moved cursor to beginning of line
             ctrl-e to end of line.

None of this currently works and I see no setting for this in the
`preferences'.

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:

>  I've been noticing on newer mozilla pkgs (currently
> mozilla-1.7.5-3)
>  that keybindings that used to work in the address box no longer work.
>  
>  These were bash (emacs like) keybindings that work on the command line.
>  
>  For example: Ctrl-k used to delete ahead of cursor.
>               Ctrl-a moved cursor to beginning of line
>               ctrl-e to end of line.
>  
>  None of this currently works and I see no setting for this in the
>  `preferences'.  
You need to have the following:

# cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0 
include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

Satish

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:54:54AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
>  On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:
>  
>  > These were bash (emacs like) keybindings that work on the command line.
>  
>  You need to have the following:
>  
>  # cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0 
>  include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
>  gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" 
That is not doing anything for me. OTOH setting with gconftool-2
a value for /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme  (there seem
to be two possibilities here - "Default" and "Emacs") indeed
does modify these bindings; even without re-logging.

As 'gconftool-2 -R / | wc -l' prints 4718 is is not that easy
to find what may be really available there and not accessible
by other means.  So far I have the following on a list I like
to have "handy":

/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser
/desktop/gnome/file_views/show_hidden_files
/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme

  Michal

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 12:10 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>  On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:54:54AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
>  > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:
>  > 
>  > > These were bash (emacs like) keybindings that work on the command line.
>  > 
>  > You need to have the following:
>  > 
>  > # cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0 
>  > include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
>  > gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
>  
>  That is not doing anything for me. OTOH setting with gconftool-2
>  a value for /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme  (there seem
>  to be two possibilities here - "Default" and "Emacs") indeed
>  does modify these bindings; even without re-logging.
>  
>  As 'gconftool-2 -R / | wc -l' prints 4718 is is not that easy
>  to find what may be really available there and not accessible
>  by other means.  So far I have the following on a list I like
>  to have "handy":
>  
>  /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
>  /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser
>  /desktop/gnome/file_views/show_hidden_files
>  /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme 
Um, what's wrong with gconf-editor?

Dan

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:25:12PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>  
>  Um, what's wrong with gconf-editor? 
Who said that something is wrong for changing something you know
that you want to change?  But while I can grep through these 4718
lines of output from 'gconftool-2 -R /' then good luck finding
something which you do not know what precisely that may be.  You
have no way to predict that, say, "show_desktop" will be under
/apps/nautilus/preferences/ and not under /desktop/gnome/interface/
or somewhere else.

Besides I can toggle values on my list with a helper script
faster that you can even start gconf-editor not mentioning finding
the right spot.

  Michal

[Harry Putnam]

Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com&gt; writes:

>  On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:54:54AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > 
> > > These were bash (emacs like) keybindings that work on the command line.
> > 
> > You need to have the following:
> > 
> > # cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0 
> > include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
> > gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
>
>  That is not doing anything for me. OTOH setting with gconftool-2
>  a value for /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme  (there seem
>  to be two possibilities here - "Default" and "Emacs") indeed
>  does modify these bindings; even without re-logging. 
I find Satish's reply does the job here.  Nice to know it can be done
without logging in/out of X though too.