[Eug-lug] mozilla keybindings

[Allen Brown]

Allen Brown wrote:
> Allen Brown wrote:
> 
>> Does anybody know how to change/set the keybindings in mozilla?
>>
>> My finger macros are emacs, and it is driving my bananas that
>> whenever I type ^p or ^n (previous-line, next-line) I get a
>> printer screen or a new window.
> 
> 
> Rob Hudson wrote:
>  > Did the original thread mention changing the key bindings?
>  > Here's a link if so:
>  > http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys
> 
> So close!  Unfortunately it has no clues for mail.  And
> mail is the window I am having trouble with.

I was wrong.  The answer is there.

What I did was to change the accellerator key from CTL to
ALT.  The only side effect is that the key to expand the
font changed from C-+ to M-+.  I can live with that!
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Allen Brown
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> Specifically it says
>   The default XBL bindings for Mozilla are in chrome files with
>   names like "*Bindings.xml". In particular, bindings for text
>   field and text areas, the browser window, and the editor window
>   live in htmlBindings.xml. In addition, there are
>   platform-specific bindings, which live in the file
>   platformHTMLBindings.xml. These contain things like the
>   emacs-inspired text editing keys on Unix, the different scroll
>   handling on Windows, or the different binding for redo on the
>   Mac.
> 
>   Other files containing key bindings for other windows include
>   treeBindings.xml, tabBindings.xml, and radioBindings.xml.
>   I don't know where the bindings for the mail window are. I hope
>   someone who knows sees this and updates this document.
> 
> Those last two sentences dashed my hopes.  I greped around
> in the Mozilla configuration files for likely strings ('"p"'
> and 'print').  There just isn't anything.
> 
> OTOH there is a cryptic comment
>   Key bindings in mozilla are handled through two mechanisms:
>   XUL, and XBL. XUL bindings sometimes override XBL bindings.
>   This is a known bug (bug 77976).
> 
> Following that leads to
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=120806
> which is tantalizing.  Except that it seems to apply
> to some other version of mozilla.  At least, there is
> no file of that name and not even the directories.
> So it is not clear where I would put such a thing to get
> mozilla to read it.
> 
> I suspect that I need to modify a xpt file since there
> is an components/editor.xpt.  But, what the heck is xpt?
> It's binary, so I can't edit it.  (Curse mozilla!)