Control-enter submission

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Aug 23 21:15:56 UTC 2004


Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> We have a patch at bug 253014 that's been reviewed. What it does is
> allows a user to commit a change or new bug to Bugzilla by using
> Control-Enter in the textarea (given that the textarea can't allow using
> Enter to submit for obvious reasons). This is fairly common on the Web,
> and I've used a couple of different web forums that offered the
> shortcut. 

Having read the bug, Myk's point is a fair one. It is possible to press 
Ctrl-Enter by mistake (I occasionally do it in Outlook at work), whereas 
it's practically impossible to press Tab Enter by mistake.

Given that Tab Enter is just about as quick, why add the extra method of 
foot-shooting?

Gerv



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