Keypress (not keydown) for repeat

[rjhughes]

Hi. I use Firefox 2. I found that when I pressed and held the "down" key (for example), it would move down exactly one message and then stop. I would like for it to continue scrolling. This is the behavior I expect.

I found this very easy to achieve: I changed the event that is attached. Instead of "keydown", it is now attached to "keypress". This works on Firefox and Konqueror.

I have a patch against revision 1139 in the trunk.

[seansan]

Not critical - review for 0.1 stable - otherwise move to 0.1.1

[till]

Before committing we should prolly test this in IE, Safari and Opera as well.

[rjhughes]

Okay. I tested it on opera (9.50 alpha, cuz that's the only 64-bit version I could find). That worked. I tested it on Safari. That worked with the new version of the patch. I tested it on IE6. It did not work, but neither did the old "keydown" way of doing things, so I didn't make it any more broken.

[rjhughes]

Patch against 1186 to use 'keypress' instead of 'keydown' to allow for keyboard repeat by holding down the key. Updated for safari.

[alec]

Patch applied in r1510.