a "clear" setting (keyboard shortcut).
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This too, was a feature of opera 12.x for 'clearing a field' it was called "clear".
this saves a bit of time, of doing ctrl + a, del, or triple click and del.
I would like to click in ANY text field, right click -> clear, or set a keyboard shortcut (which I usually selected as ctrl + u).
This is useful if you're using search engines on pages, and want to do a new search.
- click in field (or tab to it - i tend to prefer using keyboard - less movement between mouse and keyboard).
- ctrl + u (not all sites / pages will auto highlight the data in the field).
- type new search.
Currently, we either have to:
- Click in field (or double click - if so, skip #2, unless its a box like what I'm typing into "right now", then it would be triple click), or tab.
- ctrl + a (since not all sites / pages will AUTO highlight the data in the field)
- either start typing, OR del, then start typing.
I know, its pretty "small" request, and might not get into the browser, but thought I'd suggest it anyway.
G
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@garfield1022 This should go further. The real issue is when you setup an install anew and there are all these defaults you don’t use. You search for a shortcut and find it, delete it’s contents and try to assign it, only to be notified the shortcut is in use by another command. Then you have to search for this command, delete it, search for your original one and finally assign. Bonus troubles when you try to reassign the one you have to delete intermediately and you notice you would have to yet delete another shortcut.
This is where the real headaches start. Clicking on several shortcuts inside a field to delete them is comparably minor.
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@luetage
I was referring to a keyboard shortcut for "clear" which CLEARS information in a text field.I'm not sure where the confusion came, but opera 12.x had a right click (in a text field, ANY text field), and had a "clear" in the right click menu option, which would delete the fields' contents), whether it was single line or multi-line text boxes / fields.
It also allowed one to assign a keyboard shortcut to that menu option.
There are times, (that I personally ran into) where I typed a bunch of stuff (like I am right now), and absolutely hated something I wrote, and want to start over (clear all and type again). I'm a particularly "lazy" (efficiently so), person and the fewer "clicks, taps, ctrl + blah) i have to do the better. I personally, usually would do ctrl + a, then either backspace or del key (which is two steps for me), I like to see something "blank" before I type (one of my quirks I guess), but having a shorter way to do this would be cool, but its not exceedingly important.
Opera 12.x certainly had a LOT of features maybe many didn't use, but I actually used quite a lot of them.
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@garfield1022 There is no confusion.
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@luetage okie dokie
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