could backspace please be (optionally?) captured?

[memoryhole]

For many folks, when we select emails and press the backspace key, we expect those emails to be deleted. Instead, we end up triggering the <Back> command of our web browser, which takes us back to, for example, the last email we composed. This is really irritating. I know some folks love their back shortcut, but could roundcube at least provide an option to capture this keypress event and delete emails rather than go <Back>?

[jpingle]

Out of curiosity, what client deletes using the backspace key? Thunderbird doesn't do anything when it is pressed, while Outlook and Outlook Express go up a folder.

It doesn't seem like very intuitive behavior to me...

[memoryhole]

They do on Macintosh computers. Apple's Mail.app deletes when the backspace key is pressed, as does Thunderbird and Microsoft Entourage from Office X.

[skrieg]

On Gnu/Linux and win32 platforms Thunderbird does not use Backspace to delete messages.

I think it's a bad idea to overwrite Firefox's major keyboard shortcuts.

btw there is a "delete" key on every keyboard. Maybe could we use the delete key to delete messages?

[memoryhole]

RoundCube already accepts the "forward-delete" key as a synonym for "delete message", but there isn't a delete key on my laptop. There's a key labeled "delete", but it's really the backspace key. Not everyone has a forward-delete key. Check out the keyboards of the Apple MacBook? Pro laptops: http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1319/store.apple.com/Catalog/regional/amr/macbookpro/img/gallery-big-07.jpg

However, going back one page in RoundCube is mostly useless. All it usually does is sends you back to the compose window of the last message you sent. This is highly confusing for people who are not used to the "backspace-goes-back-one-page" key combo, but are instead used to "backspace-deletes-a-message" in their own email clients.

[seansan]

tchja? Maybe someone with a mac to review/decide? 0.1.5

[ksteinhoff]

The patch I just attached captures backspace and deletes the selected messages.

Should this be made optional?

[thomasb]

The default behavior of the backspace key should also be prevented. Some browsers do a history.back when hitting backspace.

[thomasb]

Applied to trunk in r1742