User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9 Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20040913) Cocoa apps - such as Apple Mail - have, at least on Panther, support for some common Emacs keystrokes, such as ^A, ^E, ^F, ^B, ^K, ^P, and ^M. It might be nice for Thunderbird on OS X to support them as well. (They should be supported in text fields as well.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

A comment in Seamonkey bug 212065 points to http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys (I've never tried customizing keystrokes; and I don't know of a separate customizing document for Mac or Windows.)

*** Bug 269669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Should this be a dupe of bug 229473, or are Tbird-specific patches needed to make their Core patch active?

The 'External Editor' extension provides my temporary workaround for this. Krishna P.S. Once I installed this, I *had* to put the icon into the compose window's toolbar (via customize toolbar) before it would work at all. After that, the shortcut and the toolbar button worked. http://globs.chez.tiscali.fr/moz_extensions/exteditor.html

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_%28Firefox%29 describes how to manually extend $MOZILLA_HOME/chrome/toolkit.jar to enable the Emacs-style line motion and delete keys. This works not only for Firefox, but for Thunderbird as well. I use it in combination with extending user.js by user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18); //18 = Alt; 17 = Control; 224 = Meta user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0); as described in http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys

*** Bug 212065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #5) > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_%28Firefox%29 > describes how to manually extend $MOZILLA_HOME/chrome/toolkit.jar > to enable the Emacs-style line motion and delete keys. I edited the file toolkit.jar, but emacs bindings don't work in Compose window. Is there a workaround for this?

Hana, are you sure you fully followed the description in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_%28Firefox%29 For me it still works fine, even with the latest versions 1.5.0.2 of both firefox and thunderbird. BTW, it's very inconvenient that the patch has to be done for every new version installed :-(

(In reply to comment #8) Yes, I am sure. As it's very inconvenient to patch the jar file nearly every day, I gave it up untill this bug is resolved. Today, I did the patch just to make sure that I really do everything which is described in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_%28Firefox%29 and that the Emacs keybindings really do not work in Compose window. The result is that Emacs keybindings work everywhere except the body part of the Compose window. I use SeaMonkey: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060422 SeaMonkey/1.0.1.

This appears to have been implemented at some point, at least in the OS X version of version 2.0.0.14 (20080421). (No, I haven't installed any plugins or other hacks; it appears to work out of the box.) Should this bug be closed as fixed, or do the Emacs keystrokes need to be implemented on other platforms (e.g., UNIX+X11, which some people might call "Linux")?

Please please implement it for Windows also. Is is embarassing that Word and Outlook can have emacs keybindings but Firefox and Thunderbird can't. See also: Bug #201011 Bug #85799 Bug #72352

Please implement it for Linux also. This might be done (for all platforms) in the form of an add-on like Firemacs. @Jim Kleckner, for Firefox, simply use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141

Finally found a general solution: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-amd64@lists.debian.org/msg08873.html Re: gcc4, thunderbird: emacs key bindings lost? > Since the migration to gcc4 the Emacs key bindings in Thunderbird's compose window seem to be gone. I ran into that some months ago too. But it has nothing to do with gcc4. This is true on all architectures. I found this solution on the firefox site. I have the following in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. # /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc # Restore the previous GTK behavior and allow emacs keys to be active. # To use the GTK 2.0 default MS-like behavior set "Default" either here # or in your $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 file. # # gtk-key-theme-name = "Default" gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" > Is it possible to set this stuff somewhere in /etc for all users? Uhm, yes, in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. :-) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_%28Firefox%29 kcontrol -> "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> Use Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts for text editing

Keysnail doesn't work on Thunderbird recent updates. I *STILL* use Thunderbird 3.1.20 because of that. I've tried upgrading Thunderbird, but it says Keysnail is incompatible. Sure wish someone would make it work! See https://github.com/mooz/keysnail