Emacs keys in Firefox

November 30, 2005 5:10 AM

The only thing keeping me from using Firefox on the Mac is that standard cursor navigation keys (C-a, C-e, and C-k, most importantly) don't work in textarea and other editing boxes. Is there a way to get them to work?

I've looked all over for the answer to no avail. Help! I'd really like to take advantage of various useful extensions, but my brain is hardwired for emacs keys.

posted by dmd to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: According to this article you can do it by editing one of the XML settings files.

Also, I never noticed that the Emacs keybindings were available throughout the normal OS. Mad. Thanks for pointing it out.
posted by chrismear at 6:03 AM on November 30, 2005

Just tried it on Firefox 1.5, and it seems to work.
posted by chrismear at 6:08 AM on November 30, 2005

Best answer: It worked for me, too.

If anyone wants it, I've got a copy of the appropriately modified jar file up for download.

Using it, you should be able to skip to the part in those instructions where you copy the modified jar file back into the Firefox.app bundle.
posted by mph at 12:02 PM on November 30, 2005