I don't want to control you, I just want to Ctrl-U. May 30, 2013 2:27 PM Subscribe
The Ctrl-U keyboard shortcut for making links doesn't work everywhere for me. I'd like it to.
When I'm making a comment (on the Blue) I can just select text, hit ctrl-U, and get the "Please enter the site you'd like to link!" dialog box, without having to mouse over and hit the 'link' button. When I try the same on the "Post a New Thread" page, on either the Grey or the Blue, it does the usual FireFox "show source". Is this intentional, and is there any way I can get the shortcut to work everywhere?
Technical details:
Win7
FireFox 20.0.1
I do have NoScript, but have all MeFi-requested sites enabled (including googleapis.com and cloudfront.net). google-analytics and chartbeat are disabled.
(Apologies if this is in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it. In fact, I don't even see any mention of the ctrl-U shortcut there, and I have no idea how I found out about it.)
When I'm making a comment (on the Blue) I can just select text, hit ctrl-U, and get the "Please enter the site you'd like to link!" dialog box, without having to mouse over and hit the 'link' button. When I try the same on the "Post a New Thread" page, on either the Grey or the Blue, it does the usual FireFox "show source". Is this intentional, and is there any way I can get the shortcut to work everywhere?
Technical details:
Win7
FireFox 20.0.1
I do have NoScript, but have all MeFi-requested sites enabled (including googleapis.com and cloudfront.net). google-analytics and chartbeat are disabled.
(Apologies if this is in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it. In fact, I don't even see any mention of the ctrl-U shortcut there, and I have no idea how I found out about it.)
By the way, if you weren't aware of keyboard shortcuts while commenting you can also use Ctrl-B for bold and Ctrl-I for italic.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:37 PM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by pb (staff) at 2:37 PM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
Okay, thanks. You can keep this open for others to support/attack the idea if you think it's worthwhile, but as far as I'm concerned you can close this now.
posted by benito.strauss at 2:37 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by benito.strauss at 2:37 PM on May 30, 2013
Thanks, pb. :)
Benito, kudos for the post title.
posted by zarq at 2:42 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
Benito, kudos for the post title.
posted by zarq at 2:42 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
pb: "By the way, if you weren't aware of keyboard shortcuts while commenting you can also use Ctrl-B for bold and Ctrl-I for italic."
April Fool's 2014 - CTRL-M to insert a random cat picture
posted by boo_radley at 2:47 PM on May 30, 2013 [6 favorites]
April Fool's 2014 - CTRL-M to insert a random cat picture
posted by boo_radley at 2:47 PM on May 30, 2013 [6 favorites]
Is it CTRL-U for Underline?
posted by shakespeherian at 3:06 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by shakespeherian at 3:06 PM on May 30, 2013
No, Ctrl-U is for adding a link. Everything else that makes sense like Ctrl-L or Ctrl-K has some special function in some browser somewhere. Ctrl-U shows you the page source in Firefox, but we felt like it was ok to override that because you don't need it too often while you're composing a comment.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:09 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 3:09 PM on May 30, 2013
It might help to think of it as, "time to add a (Ctrl-U)RL."
posted by pb (staff) at 3:15 PM on May 30, 2013 [9 favorites]
posted by pb (staff) at 3:15 PM on May 30, 2013 [9 favorites]
ok, just made the keyboard shortcuts active on new post forms. Let me know if you run into problems.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:18 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by pb (staff) at 3:18 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
I saw problems at the mall last night, buying naughty things at Frederick's.
posted by carsonb at 3:28 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by carsonb at 3:28 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
Hey, that's great. It works fine on the Green for me. I can't check it on the Blue or the Grey as I've been a busy poster today; I'll verify tomorrow.
A+, would suggest again.
posted by benito.strauss at 3:30 PM on May 30, 2013
A+, would suggest again.
posted by benito.strauss at 3:30 PM on May 30, 2013
It's because the links CONTROL-YOU.
posted by GuyZero at 3:31 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 3:31 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
I don't want to control you, I just want to Ctrl-U.
HIGH FIVE BRO
posted by nathancaswell at 3:32 PM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
HIGH FIVE BRO
posted by nathancaswell at 3:32 PM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
Holy crap, I learned something new today! Yay!
posted by SuperSquirrel at 3:32 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by SuperSquirrel at 3:32 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
OMG Ctrl-U is amazing, I especially like how it autoselects http:// so if you paste you don't end up with http://http://
I had no idea
posted by nathancaswell at 3:34 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
I had no idea
posted by nathancaswell at 3:34 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
Embarrassingly, I never knew this either. Thanks for enlightening me, benito.strauss.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 3:48 PM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 3:48 PM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
Oh, this is awesome. It's always bothered me just that little bit that Ctrl-U worked in comments but not in posts.
posted by jeather at 3:59 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by jeather at 3:59 PM on May 30, 2013
Gnifti, you really should think about upgrading to the new CabalMod package.
posted by zarq at 4:14 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by zarq at 4:14 PM on May 30, 2013
pb: "It might help to think of it as, "time to add a (Ctrl-U)RL.""
This is officially my favorite thing today.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 4:17 PM on May 30, 2013
This is officially my favorite thing today.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 4:17 PM on May 30, 2013
^U in the unix shell erases the line.
posted by Obscure Reference at 4:45 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by Obscure Reference at 4:45 PM on May 30, 2013
Little known easter egg: Pressing Alt-F4 turns the "Post Comment" button into a unicorn. Only on windows.
posted by double block and bleed at 5:52 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by double block and bleed at 5:52 PM on May 30, 2013
I'm a terrible person.
posted by double block and bleed at 5:55 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by double block and bleed at 5:55 PM on May 30, 2013
I'm a terrible person.
It's cool, I tried CTRL + U as soon as I saw the title of the post and all of a sudden saw mefi naked.
posted by postcommunism at 6:07 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
It's cool, I tried CTRL + U as soon as I saw the title of the post and all of a sudden saw mefi naked.
posted by postcommunism at 6:07 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
MeFi wasn't wearing pants anyway.
posted by arcticseal at 7:19 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by arcticseal at 7:19 PM on May 30, 2013
Man, I suggested this months ago and was denied. I see that benito.strauss must have paid his cabal dues. Sorry I fell behind, it won't happen again.
posted by desjardins at 8:18 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by desjardins at 8:18 PM on May 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
"Accused of being in the cabal"
BINGO!
posted by benito.strauss at 9:29 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
BINGO!
posted by benito.strauss at 9:29 PM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
Sorry about that desjardins. Your request wasn't denied. I put it on my to do list and then lost focus at some point. When I saw the request today it jogged my memory and I remembered I should have done it a while ago.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:33 PM on May 30, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 9:33 PM on May 30, 2013
CTRL+W will reveal "cabal" identifiers in a thread. It's an upside-down "M"
posted by lordaych at 2:11 AM on May 31, 2013
posted by lordaych at 2:11 AM on May 31, 2013
In Metafilter, links ctrl-U.
posted by chavenet at 6:05 AM on May 31, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 6:05 AM on May 31, 2013 [4 favorites]
^U in the unix shell erases the line.
This is still what I use Ctrl-U for. It pissed me off to no end when Firefox broke that, especially when the focus is on the address box. After Opera followed suit I made sure to always use the "traditional layout".
posted by kmz at 6:59 AM on May 31, 2013
This is still what I use Ctrl-U for. It pissed me off to no end when Firefox broke that, especially when the focus is on the address box. After Opera followed suit I made sure to always use the "traditional layout".
posted by kmz at 6:59 AM on May 31, 2013
I saw problems at the mall last night, buying naughty things at Frederick's.
Ahooooo!
posted by flabdablet at 7:03 AM on May 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
Ahooooo!
posted by flabdablet at 7:03 AM on May 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
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posted by pb (staff) at 2:31 PM on May 30, 2013