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Bug 381742 - BIDI [firefox] ctrl-shift-x should switch text direction
Summary: BIDI [firefox] ctrl-shift-x should switch text direction
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Orion (Archived)
Classification: ECD
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Reported: 2012-06-05 12:34 EDT by Mihai Sucan CLA
Modified: 2015-05-05 14:49 EDT (History)
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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