VDQ on Firefox : Unix keyboard how?

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:21:41 -0500, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Within Firefox go to Help menu and select Keyboard Shortcuts, you will
> see that Ctrl-k is reserved for "Remove End of Line".  However, it can
> be changed.

HOW?? If that's supposed to be "Remove *to* End of Line," it's what I want
and do *not* have. And in the Help it says what it does, and infuriates
me: Web Search -- NOT delete to end of line.

One at least of us is confused. And the Help only made it worse.

I want to be able to delete everything from the cursor position to the end
of the line, with a keystroke, and *without* reaching for the miserable
mouse except just to put the cursor in one place, and let it stay there.
That position, btw, is usually right after "www." -- but also often
elsewhere.

In Opera all I have to do is tell it under Tools > Preferences
> Mouse and Keyboard to use "Opera Standard for UNIX." 

Then Ctrl-K does exactly that -- just as it also does in pico and
therefore in pine.

I thought maybe Ctrl-X, "cut," might be it; but the help says Ctrl-X in
Ffx is also Ctrl-X in opera -- which I don't use and don't want to, since
in pine that's Send, and in pico it's Save.

> There is an easier way to do what I believe you want to do which is
> clear the URL (Universal Resource Locater) field: Highlight whatever is
> there and press the delete key.  OR Highlight whatever is there and
> proceed to type whereever it is you wish to go on the web.

No. I don't want to delete the whole URL, but only back from a precise
point to the end, without pounding on the backspace, and please, please,
*without* highlighting. And I don't type URLs. I paste them.

Opera makes it so easy! Even my arthritic fingers and trifocal eyeballs
can do it. Jumping to the googlefield is something I almost never want to
do; I open a fresh tab instead, and google from scratch in that; then I
can close the tab when I'm done.

Am I making sense yet??
-- 
Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!