On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Johann Spies <jsp...@sun.ac.za> wrote: > >> On Debian in Firefox >> >> If I terminate a running query, change it and press F5 again, a >> notification jumps up asking me whether I want to leave the page! >> >> Then I have to use the mouse to activate the query again. >> > > It sounds like Firefox is grabbing the keypress. That shouldn't happen as > long as the query tool has focus. Is that the case? > Arguably it is pgadmin that expects to grab it from Firefox :) It's actually pretty horrible in general that a website *can* hijack hotkeys from the browser. I have issues with this all the time in other web systems (haven't really had a problem with pgadmin, but it's the same general thing) given that some hotkeys are different in different locales and the developers didn't consider that. > I am not actually sure whether it is always after a query was terminated >> that this happens. I am just getting a bit fed-up with this behaviour. >> >> Is there a way to get Ctl-E back as it was on pgadmin3? >> > > I honestly had no idea Ctrl+E worked in pgAdmin III. The documented key > was F5 there too. > I used Ctrl-E all the time :) > We are looking into the idea of making shortcut keys configurable, so that > may solve this. > That would indeed be great, and would solve the more general case I mentioned above as well (which I'm sure hurts somebody in some locale already). //Magnus
