Can't get TAB key to work for autocompletion. From news://news.mozilla.org/378C154F.1830EEDD@netscape.com : actually, I tried allowing tab to work, but I had problems. tab seems to be picked up before it gets to the text area to change focus to the body of the message. I gave up, but this will have to be figured out. Feel free to log a bug and assign it to me. -Seth BTW, the Enter key implies a certain finality about the choice. If this really right? BTW, again, is it possible to have double TAB bring up possible completions a la Unix shells or is that just too hard?

>the Enter key implies a certain finality about the choice. If this really right? in 4.5, the enter key, it would trigger autocomplete, and then forward you to the next address. and tab would forward you to the next cell, which was the "To:/Bcc:/Cc:/Newsgroup:/" cell. (and another tab would take you to the next text area. eventually, 5.0 should do the same. >BTW, again, is it possible to have double TAB bring up possible completions a la Unix shells or is that just too hard? I don't know. it is probably doable, but I wouldn't expect to see it in 5.0. (but if you have a patch, we'd take it.) If you do write the javascript for it, make sure it off by default, and turned on by a pref. log a seperate bug (severity = enhancement.) re-assign this but ot ducarroz, who owns autocomplete in 5.0

In the news article attached the code is attempting to use the tab key off of the keyup event. In this situation yes, the system will grab the tab key message during the keydown and transfer focus away. Key messages in general are handled on the keydown or keypress messages, not on the keyup so any action the system is going to take will have occurred by then. Its possible that the tab message should be handled during the keypress message instead, but either way it will handle the event after it has been passed to its target so it should be possible to retask the tab key to something else.

JF- pls assign a target milestone for this bug.

Move to M11.

Today, Tabbing from a gfx edit field doesn't work at all. I won't be able to do something until bug 13702 is fixed.

bug 13702 was a duplicate of bug 12655. As bug 12655 will be fixed by M12, I change the target to M12 too.

(target milestone is M11 or M12 - add to mail beta tracking bug)

bug as been fixed, Tab into/from the recipients list works now.

Using 19991026 build on win98, mac and linux the Tab key will cycle through the From field, Addressing field buttons, populated addressing fields and subject field. This is verified per ducarroz comment on 10/22. It should be reopened if original bug (about not being able to change the action of the TAB key to work for autocompletion) is still not working. Other bugs will be logged regarding TAB and <Enter> key functionality for autocompletion.