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by toupeira 2442 days ago
It would be great if the DevTools input fields behaved like all other input fields in Firefox ;-) Things like Ctrl+C/V, Ctrl+(Shift+)Left/Right, and others I'm probably forgetting right now (am on phone).
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RussianCow 2442 days ago
Where don't they? I just did a quick run through the dev tools and all the input fields I used behaved exactly as I expected.
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toupeira 2441 days ago
Whoops I apologize, looks like it's only the console prompt! I get that Ctrl+V might be disabled for security reasons, but is there a config flag to enable it anyway?

And yeah for some reason Ctrl+Left/Right to jump around words, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to select words, and Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word, are disabled in the console prompt as well (they do seem to work in all the other DevTools input fields I can see). These are pretty ingrained in my muscle memory so I constantly bump into them.

Also I'm on Linux, in case that matters.

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RussianCow 2440 days ago
Interesting, sounds like you may want to file a bug report. I'm on Linux as well (Arch, Cinnamon) and all of those key combinations work for me.
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toupeira 2431 days ago
That's curious, they do work fine on another machine running Xfce so apparently it's related to Gnome. Filed a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591783, thanks!
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