META: Solved: The case of the vanishing entries

I finally figured out why my half-written blog entries keep vanishing. Apparently, the default action for ^W in Iceweasel is to close the current tab. This appears to be true even if the current keyboard focus is in a text edit box…

I guess this would be because the Iceweasel folks hate us old-school, keyboard-driven types. I keep turning emacs-style text editing for Iceweasel back on, but it seems to keep getting turned back off with upgrades.

Another approach would be to try a solution like It's All Text or even Conkeror that lets me use real emacs or something very like it for editing in Firefox.

I dunno. I'll figure out something. At least I now know where my unfinished posts keep going. Friend of Bart

By Bart at 2007-10-31 02:05
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META: Solved: The case of the vanishing entries

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