Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Sam Halliday wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. cheers, Sam Hi Sam, OH that one! If you mean the one just to the right of the basic url textbox, then ctl-k does that for you. If you (1) select and copy text from some webpage, then ctl-k then ctl-v it will paste whatever your selection is in that searchbox over whatever (if anything) was in it before. BTW, ctl-f works exactly the same. The combo ctl-f ctl-v will paste whatever you've just selected into the searchbox in the lower lefthand corner of Firefox. I hope I've understood you now. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. OH that one! If you mean the one just to the right of the basic url textbox, then ctl-k does that for you. no, you need to 'C-k Del' to do what i want. besides... that is not the point. i knew the keystroke from the very beginning of the thread, i was axing if anyone had written an extension to do what thunderbird does; bring up a 'clear' button. thanks anyway. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time. cheers, Sam Hi Sam, I just use ctl-f which opens the search box if it's not already open. It highlights any text in the box if it's already open so anything I type replaces what's highlighted. It shifts focus to the search box as well so even if the box is on the main Firefox browser window ctl-f will get you straight to the search box. I'm using KDE and ctl-f is the search command used in KDE apps anyway. Isn't that easier and quicker than using a button. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On 12/19/2004 09:10 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time. cheers, Sam Hi Sam, I just use ctl-f which opens the search box if it's not already open. It highlights any text in the box if it's already open so anything I type replaces what's highlighted. It shifts focus to the search box as well so even if the box is on the main Firefox browser window ctl-f will get you straight to the search box. I'm using KDE and ctl-f is the search command used in KDE apps anyway. Isn't that easier and quicker than using a button. Cheers, Jonathan Jonathan and Sam, For searching *within* a web page in firefox, there's also find as you type. Edit - Preferences - Advanced or about:config - accessibility.typeaheadfind For searching *within* a message in thunderbird, there's also mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind package for similar functionality. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time. I just use ctl-f which opens the search box if it's not already open. It highlights any text in the box if it's already open so anything I type replaces what's highlighted. It shifts focus to the search box as well so even if the box is on the main Firefox browser window ctl-f will get you straight to the search box. I'm using KDE and ctl-f is the search command used in KDE apps anyway. Isn't that easier and quicker than using a button. no. consider the situation where i have selected text from the browser window which i wish to search for. C-f will not delete the text in the search window, and neither will pasting over it. the only key combination which will do what i wish involves 4 key presses on my laptop C-k Fn-BS (to send C-k Del). a button would be much better, and not require me to learn any new key strokes. i already use emacs... i think thats enough key shortcuts for a lifetime! cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On 12/17/2004 11:40 PM, Travis Crump wrote: If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. From terminal: $ gnome-keybinding-properties Note that that is different from gnome-keyboard-properties. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On 12/18/2004 12:00 AM, Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 11:40 PM, Travis Crump wrote: If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. From terminal: $ gnome-keybinding-properties Note that that is different from gnome-keyboard-properties. gnome-keybinding-properties just gives me the dialog where you set shortcuts ala the old acme. Still can't figure out where I'd be supposed to find 'text editing shortcuts'; I've tried everything under Applications-Desktop Preferences. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 14:20 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/18/2004 12:00 AM, Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! Remember, it's a laptop, not a desktop keyboard. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. I went home with a waitress the way I always do. How was I to know she was with the Russians, too? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Ralph Katz wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! yes its a laptop keyboard, so Delete (unlike Backspace) requires a two-key combination, which is just a pain. when you think about it... thats 4 keys you need to press in order to clear the taskbar, but a single click could do the same thing. to be honest... i use this key combination and always have... but i much prefer the button Thunderbird implements. since no-one seems to have written an extension to do this (its maybe a little ridiculous to write an extension for something so trivial), i have opened up a wishlist report on bugzilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275193 hopefully it'll get picked up for 1.1 thanks for everyone's replies! cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On Dec 17 2004, Steve Lamb wrote:
Firefox setting CNTL-U to upload manager was pretty dumb since CNTL-U
is unix' default for clear field. :/
Put this into your .gtkrc-2.0 file:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
And while we're at it, here are the contents of my .gtkrc file:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
include /usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk/gtkrc
style user-font
{
font=-bitstream-bitstream vera
sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
}
widget_class * style user-font
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
This way, my GTK 1 applications are more or less similar to my GTK 2
applications.
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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Thunderbird style search in Firefox
for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time. cheers, Sam what's so bad about ctrl-a, delete? oh yeah that's windows. I'm still just a wanna be. what is the select-all keystroke in... I guess gnome? don't tell me it doesn't exist. bu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: what is the select-all keystroke in... I guess gnome? don't tell me it doesn't exist. CNTL-A. Problem is that we're talking X style selects. Select something it is automatically coped into the CP buffer. So you can't do a Windows style CNTL-A, CNTL-C, click, CNTL-A, CNTL-V since the CNTL-V would yield the contents you're trying to get rid of. Firefox setting CNTL-U to upload manager was pretty dumb since CNTL-U is unix' default for clear field. :/ -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Steve Lamb wrote: Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: what is the select-all keystroke in... I guess gnome? don't tell me it doesn't exist. CNTL-A. Problem is that we're talking X style selects. Select something it is automatically coped into the CP buffer. So you can't do a Windows style CNTL-A, CNTL-C, click, CNTL-A, CNTL-V since the CNTL-V would yield the contents you're trying to get rid of. Firefox setting CNTL-U to upload manager was pretty dumb since CNTL-U is unix' default for clear field. :/ I seem to recall that older builds of Firefox and Thunderbird used the Unix-style (I believe the same shortcuts as used by GNU readline) when run in Linux. For example, if you started typing something in the address bar, a CTRL-U would clear what you had typed. If you were entering a serch query on Google's homepage, a CTRL-W would delete the previous word. I get really irritated now and then because I still forget sometimes. I will type in a 10-word Google query and hit CTRL-W to delete the last word I typed and wham. My tab is closed. If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
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Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html Some additional notes are now in /usr/share/doc/mozilla-firefox/README.Debian . And Sam, to clear the search bar, Ctrl-J, Delete or just type new entry. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html Fat lot that does those of us using KDE. Pft. This whole must run Gnome to configure crap is starting to really piss me off. At least KDE apps have the courtesy of allowing one to configure their shortcuts in the app. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:47:06 -0800, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fat lot that does those of us using KDE. Pft. This whole must run Gnome to configure crap is starting to really piss me off. At least KDE apps have the courtesy of allowing one to configure their shortcuts in the app. Actually, what works just fine is to add the following line to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs I'm not running Gnome, either, nor KDE. I'd rather see this done through Firefox's internal configurations, but it could be worse. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:47:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Ralph Katz wrote:
I learned the answer earlier from this list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html
Fat lot that does those of us using KDE. Pft. This whole must run
Gnome to configure crap is starting to really piss me off. At least KDE
apps have the courtesy of allowing one to configure their shortcuts in the
app.
Huh? Did I miss something?
From ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
# allow ctrl-u to work in text boxes
binding my-text-entry {
bind ctrlu { delete-from-cursor (paragraphs, -1) }
}
class GtkEntry binding my-text-entry
# and in text views
binding my-text-view {
bind u { delete-from-cursor (paragraphs, 1) }
}
class GtkTextView binding my-text-view
# ---
# allow the user to change accelerators
gtk-can-change-accels = 1
It's not like it's rocket science, guys. If you don't want to use g-c-c (I
certainly don't), then set things the way you want them to be yourself.
Of course, I would never use crapfox either, but this solves the problem
for *all* GTK applications.
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Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Steve Lamb wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html Fat lot that does those of us using KDE. Pft. This whole must run Gnome to configure crap is starting to really piss me off. At least KDE apps have the courtesy of allowing one to configure their shortcuts in the app. If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox
Ralph Katz wrote: And Sam, to clear the search bar, Ctrl-J, Delete or just type new entry. thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. the little X box which thunderbird has is preferable to any keyboard shortcut to be honest. i was just wondering if anyone has written a little extension to add that support... cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
