This behavior is true on Windows in entry fields as well.
Mike Kaply
IBM
Alan Beagley wrote:
> I reported to Bugzilla that Ctrl-Del does not delete to end of line
> either in the URL window of Mozilla 0.9 or in the Bugzilla report form.
>
> I got a reply asking if Ctrl-Del = Delete to EOL is an OS/2 specific key
> combination.
>
> Is it? In WordPerfect for DOS Ctrl-End was Delete to EOL, and I had to
> get used to doing Ctrl-Del instead when I started using WPWin. Since
> Ctrl-Del did a Delete to EOL in NS 4.61 (perhaps in 2.02 as well, but I
> can't remember), I assumed that this was the new "standard" (wherever it
> might have originated) and was surprised to find that it didn't work in
> Mozilla 8.1 or 9.0.
>
> So: do people agree with me that Ctrl-Del ought to Delete to EOL in
> Mozilla, and that its failure to do so is a bug that needs to be fixed?
>
> --
> Alan
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