qef hates software: firefox, it's a fecking text area

• From: Geoff Richards
  Date: 12:33 on 04 May 2005
  Subject: firefox, it's a fecking text area
  
  I haven't been able to work out how to get Firefox into this most
  special of modes, but sometimes, very occasonally, it enhances my
  wiki-editing experience by providing an impromtu search facility
  in the text area.
  
  Which would be handy, if it wasn't initiated by the '/' key.
  Which funnily enough I sometimes want to type.  Now, I can see how
  it might have got confused about when to recognise '/' and pop
  up the (normally welcome) little search bar, but what the hell does
  it think it's doing when the single quote key does the same thing?
  
  There must be some sort of XUL keybinding, only enabled under 'special'
  conditions, which is bound to a function like this:
  
      void
      fuckadoodledoo (char c)
      {
          textarea.insert(c);
          if (c == '/' || c == '\'') {
              search_toolbar.show();
              search_toolbar.textbox.insert(c);
              textarea.move_cursor_somewhere_uninteresting();
              user.palpitate();
          }
      }
  
  At least I was able to do my editing -- it just required lots of
  mouse-waving and swearing.
  
  
  

• From: Smylers
  Date: 13:01 on 04 May 2005
  Subject: Re: firefox, it's a fecking text area
  
  Geoff Richards writes:
  
  > Now, I can see how it might have got confused about when to recognise
  > '/' and pop up the (normally welcome) little search bar, but what the
  > hell does it think it's doing when the single quote key does the same
  > thing?
  
  Apostrophe initiates searching just in the text of links, which is a
  useful feature for following links without reaching for a mouse or
  pressing Tab hundreds of times (immediately followed by pressing
  Shift+Tab about 3 times).
  
  But that still doesn't explain why either of those keystrokes were
  activating searching while a text area was focused.
  
  Smylers
  
  

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