'Emacs style' delete line shortcut (CTRL/U) doesn't work correctly in Firefox

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 13:18, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> OK, I don't have to use the mouse/touchpad if I learn one of the
> above, thank you.

Top tip, if you're concerned about keyboard efficiency: unplug your
mouse for a while. Learn to use your PC without it.

(I'm old. I learned Windows 2.0 this way in 1988 in my first job. My
employers didn't own a PC mouse. If you wanted GUI stuff, you used a
Mac. So I had to learn all the keyboard shortcuts. I had no choice.
But it means colleagues are dazzled by how fast I can navigate a GUI
now, while barely touching the mouse. CUA was rationally designed,
unlike Emacs or Vi. It's easier to learn than either and it's far more
widely used.)

This is one place Windows scores slightly over Linux, and Linux scores
significantly over Macs: keyboard controls. You can do almost
everything with just the keys.

Personally I don't get on with Emacs (or Vi) and don't use them,
because they don't use the standard keyboard shortcuts that all GUI
apps support and have supported since roughly Windows 3 in about 1989.

It's worth learning them, IMHO, because they are far more
widely-supported than Emacs or anything like it.

>
> Ctrl-A, Del is no good because it *selects* the text before deleting
> and thus overwites anything I have in the cut buffer.  I very
> frequently us CTRL/U before pasting something I have copied from
> somewhere.

That's a good point. I use that too.

> However End, CTRL/U does work so is a reasonable workaround, two keys
> a long way apart on my keyboard though!

Hmm. I can't help there. I have big hands and use a big loud old IBM
Model M clicky keyboard. Works for me.


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