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Bug 381742

Summary: BIDI [firefox] ctrl-shift-x should switch text direction
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan>
Component: EditorAssignee: Project Inbox <orion.editor-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: Silenio_Quarti, tomerm
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Mihai Sucan CLA 2012-06-05 12:34:01 EDT
Firefox has a native keyboard shortcut for switching text direction between ltr and rtl. You can press Ctrl-Shift-X in any contentEditable/designMode or textarea to switch the text direction.

Our RTL-language users would like this shortcut to work in the developer tools source editor as well:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669011

The expected behavior is that the whole document being edited switches text direction. If we enable this shortcut, currently Orion breaks and the whole UI changes its direction. Most likely Orion needs to prevent the default action and implement the direction change only inside the editable code area.

Thank you!
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 14:49:01 EDT
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html