Delirium wrote:
No, "Select All" is Alt+A, not Ctrl+A, and the website currently overrides it, which is quite irritating. This is using Firefox 0.8 under Linux. Perhaps it is Ctrl+A under other operating systems, which is the source of the confusion?
Hmm... checking my copy. Ctrl+A does do select all on a web page, but not in a text edit field. There it goes to the beginning of the current line (like it does in Safari, until MediaWiki goes and overrides it with 'link to article page'). Alt+A does indeed select all in a text edit field in Firefox 0.8/linux.
Key bindings suck; there just aren't enough keys. :P
To recap: on Windows/Linux most browsers use 'alt' for page-defined access keys. Page-defined access keys may conflict with and override menubar shortcuts (alt+F for 'File') or sometimes other shortcuts (alt+A for Select All)
On Mac most browsers use 'control' for access keys. Page-defined access keys may conflict with and override emacs-style keybindings for text edit fields (control+A for 'go to beginning of line'). Several people have complained about this conflict as well, and it's been biting me lately though I hadn't noticed during testing.
Keys that are probably problematic and should be avoided include:
A (F&avorites / beginning of line / select all) B (&Bookmarks / back) D (delete) E (&Edit / end of line) F (&File / forward) G (&Go) H (&Help / backspace) K (delete to end of line) N (next line) O (newline?) T (&Tools) V (&View / end of file) Y (paste)
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