firefox, it's a fecking text area

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From: Geoff Richards
Subject: firefox, it's a fecking text area
Date: 12:33 on 04 May 2005
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.

-- 

--- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ ---
"I tried to fling my shadow at the moon,
 The while my blood leapt with a wordless song."  --  Theodore Roethke

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