anyone know how to do this in Safari?

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I set the config variables as directed, but my Firefox 1.5 shows no change in behavior.

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Great tip, thanks. :)

Does anyone know how to do the same for the cmd+left/right arrow keys? I use these constantly to go to the beginning/end of lines. Sometimes Firefox decides that what I really want to do is scrap everything I wrote and go back instead.

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Ditto to that. Safari is smart enough to allow cmd-arrow to behave in a TEXTAREA or TEXT field the way you would expect (ie jump to start/end of line/doc) and to behave as keyboard short for Back/Forward when no form element has focus.

Firefox doesn't do this, and I've lost count of the number of page edits I've lost to Mambo on account of this. (Mambo doesn't play nicely with Safari, in case you're wondering the obvious question!)

So if anyone knows how to adjust this behaviour, please share.

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Yes, help!!!!!!

Anyone know how to disable the Command Arrow Keys? I've trashed too many text boxes to count!!

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The problem: within some editors, such as TinyMCE, Firefox (on a MacBook) will handle Cmd-Left as "go back one page" rather than "go to the start of the current line". Likewise, Cmd-Right will take you forward a page, but as in most cases there won't be a page to forward to, this often results in moving the cursor to the end of the current line after all.

To see the effect: go to http://tinymce.moxiecode.com and from that page go forward to Examples, and then forward to Documentation. Now, go back one page. Back in the Examples change some text and hit Cmd-Left while the cursor is still within the editor. Firefox will take you back yet another page, loosing any changes you made. Here Safari would set the cursor to the start of the current line. Likewise, for Cmd-Right Firefox takes you forward to Documentation, where Safari would move the cursor to the end of the current line.

The solution is simple: use the add-on "keyconfig" from http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994 After installing go to menu Tools, Keyconfig and choose Disable for the combination "Back: Cmd + Left Arrow". Likewise disable "Forward: Cmd + Right Arrow". That's all. To navigate use Cmd-[ and Cmd-].

As for the original hint: maybe instead of changing browser.backspace_action one could also use "keyconfig" to disable the combination "Back: Backspace".

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>> anyone know how to do this in Safari?

Yes, please!

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That's why I couldn't find an add-on to achieve that!

T H A N K S !

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Personally I love this behaviour.

Don't get how this affects people. If you're not in Safari/Firefox then don't hit backspace unless you choose to.


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In both browsers, I have been caught by surprise when I position the cursor in a URL in the address field, desiring to edit it, and press "Delete/Backspace", and the browser executes a "Back" command instead. I do not know why sometimes this happens and sometimes not. I'd prefer to disable the "Delete=Back" key assignment entirely to avoid the difficulty. After all, there are two other key combos for doing "Back", such as Cmd-Left Arrow and Cmd-[.

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I personally have hated this behaviour forever. I'm SO glad I finally found out how to change it, thanks to your tip!

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I love this behavior, and here is why: it makes it simple to use the same button on the mouse for backspace and go back.

If I want to actually edit the URL location I just focus on the URL. Otherwise it functions nicely.



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I *so* hated this alleged "feature" and am so glad to now know how to disable it. Thanks!

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I have a thought on how to achieve this, though it's convoluted and missing a crucial piece. But here's the idea, anyway.

The Tiger keyboard preference panel can (only) map key combinations to menu items; if there was a menu item for "go to beginning of line" and "go to end of line", say in TextExtras (which has the capability of inserting its menu into any application), then one could install TextExtras and use the OS keyboard preference panel to map command-{left|right}-arrow to those menu items (either just in Firefox or for all apps).

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It's apparent I meant to post the above as a reply to the subthread about the command-arrow keys, I hope.

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