Jeffery, Thanks. This basic stuff is exactly what I need. I've been using Unix or Linux text consoles for the past 40 or so years. All my instincts tell me to edit as if I am using vi/vim with often hilarious results. So my situation is exactly opposite yours. I had to hunt in Learn mode to find my Insert, Home, and End keys because I never use them. I only know where the arrow keys are because I need them to control mplayer in text console mode. Your so called basic instructions are an enormous help. Very appreciatively, Rudy -- Rudy Vener Beast Hunt Vol 1, containing my short story Dragon Wing, is loose in the wild: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPN1QGGJ Latest Limerick - California Pipe Dreaming Of Secession https://limerickdude.substack.com/p/california-pipe-dreaming-of-secession Website: http://www.rudyvener.com On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 10:21:41PM +0000, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > As a general rule, once a textbox has focus, usually because you used > Orca's e navigation hotkey to jump to it and switched to focus mode or > tabbed to it from an adjacent form element, you should be able to just > type into it. > That said, I know console applications don't always use standard > keyboard shortcuts that are near universal across both Windows and > Linux when it comes to editing text, so here are some basic keyboard > shortcuts when in a textbox that should also apply to most GUI text > editors, word processors, etc.: > Textboxes in web forms come in two versions:A single line and > multi-line, and best I can tell, Orca doesn't make a distinction > between them. In either case, left/right arrow will move the insertion > point one character at a time, and ctrL+left/right arrow will move the > insertion point to the next whitespace or punctuation character, and > home/end to the beginning/end of the line. for Single line text > entries, up/down arrow act like home/end, while for multi line, they > move by line. PageUp/PageDown will move by multiple lines in a > multi-line textbox, but they are rather unpredictable. > Hold shift and use arrow/navigation keys to select text, everything > acting like it does for moving the insertion point, including the > ctrl+left/right arrow to go by word/string. > ctrl+a: Select all. If a textbox is focused, this will select the > contents of the text box. If you are in browse mode, it will select > everything on the page. > delete/backspace: will delete whatever is selected, if anything, if > nothing is selected, they just delete the next/previous character > relative to the insertion point. > ctrl+c: copy selection > ctrl+x: cut selection > ctrl+v: paste last thing copy/pasted > ctrl+shift+v: This isn't useful when editing text in firefox, but if > you need to copy something from Firefox or another GUI application into > a terminal window, the normal ctrl+v to paste often won't work and > you'll need to use ctrl+shift+v to paste into the terminal. > Firefox has a built-in spell checker and Orca should announce an > unrecognized word when you press space at the end of the word or move > the insertion point into it, and Firefox's suggestions for correcting > the unrecognized word are part of the context menu when a textbox has > focus. > As for copying the contents of a file into a textbox,, if you type: > file:///path/to/directory > into Firefox's address bar(accessed with ctrl+l), you can navigate > local directories, and if it's a file Firefox can read, you can open > local files, though Firefox will only open plain text files that have > the .txt extension as far as I know. I have several local directories > where I'm likely to want to copy the contents of a text file contained > therein into a web form, and when I want to do so, I open the > appropriate bookmark to a local directory in a new tab, open the file I > want to copy, elect all, copy, switch tabs, and paste. Firefox also has > an open file option in the file menu, through I personally find the > generated directory listings easier to navigate than the open file > dialog. Sadly, I'm not aware of any way to just insert the contents of > a local file into a textbox without manually opening the file and > copying its contents, and naturally, you'd need another GUI app for > files that can't be opened directly in Firefox. > Hope that helps and sorry if some of this is super basic. I've been > using firefox since before Firefox 1.0, longer than I've been using > Linux and I was a long time Linux user when I went blind and I've never > gotten the hang of using a text-mode web browser, so I really don't > know how much of this is stuff you genuinely don't know coming from > text browsers and how much is stuff I take for granted becuase I > struggle to remember a time before I learned. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.