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

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 01:44:22PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.)
> 
I'm even older (as regards computer use and probably actual age) I
started my programming career back in 1970/1971.  Keyboard meant a
10cps teletype back then, with a few of the new whizzy VDUs.


> 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.
> 
On the other hand you can find vi (or a vi clone like I use)
*everywhere* and you can use it via an ssh connection.  Thus I only
know *one* editor and use it for absolutely everything, I use mutt for
E-mail (with vi as its editor), I use tin for news (with vi as its
editor), I use vi (or my GUI clone, xvile) for programming, I even use
vi in text boxes in Firefox with the help of the textern add-on.


> It's worth learning them, IMHO, because they are far more
> widely-supported than Emacs or anything like it.
> 
See above!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green