TinyMCE fails to detect some Mac keyboard combos

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

This is a very minor niggle, but it would be nice if things worked as expected. :)

On a Mac, in Camino (i.e. Firefox lite) and Safari, if you select text using Shift + Command + Arrow (to select the entire line), the Add Link button doesn't turn on. I'm assuming the same for Firefox.

Things work fine when you use Shift + Arrow or Shift + Option + Arrow.

The Windows equivalent, for reference and testing purposes, would be Shift + Arrow and Shift + Control + Arrow respectively. Not sure about Linux.

[mdawaffe]

I noticed this problem in WP's TinyMCE today too when typing Command-a in FF3b4/Mac (to select all the text).

[azaozz]

Seems to be Mac specific behaviour. Using Shift + Arrow in Windows (FF, Safari, Opera) selects one character at a time, using Shift + Control + Arrow selects one word at a time, triple-clicking selects the whole paragraph and Ctrl + A selects all. In all cases the Link button activates. Passing on to TinyMCE's team.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Hopefully, someone over there will have a Mac. :D

Bumping this

[pishmishy]

I can confirm this under FF3 in OS X. I don't know enough about my Mac or TinyMCE to fix this though.

[MattyRob]

I suspect that this is a bug in TinyMCE and not WordPress.

To reproduce:
Open a "Write Post" page
Enter some text into the document
Change the focus off the textarea
Select text using different methods:
Mouse + drag works
Ctrl+A works
Shift + arrow keys works

Command as a modifier key and arrows doesn't work, most likely because TinyMCE does not detect the modifier on Mac of pressing Command. I will confirm my suspicions by trying out TinyMCE directly on the Moxiecode site from my Mac later and close this ticket as wontfix and log it with TinyMCE if I'm right.

[MattyRob]

This affects TinyMCE outside of the WordPress environment (​http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true) so closing as invalid and opening a ticket (SourceForge ID 2014422)

[MattyRob]

I've found a fix.. line 7974 in tiny_mce is:

if ((e.keyCode >= 33 && e.keyCode <= 36) || (e.keyCode >= 37 && e.keyCode <= 40) || e.keyCode == 13 || e.keyCode == 45 || e.keyCode == 46 || e.keyCode == 8 || e.ctrlKey)

Change this to:

if ((e.keyCode >= 33 && e.keyCode <= 36) || (e.keyCode >= 37 && e.keyCode <= 40) || e.keyCode == 13 || e.keyCode == 45 || e.keyCode == 46 || e.keyCode == 8 || (tinymce.isMac && e.keyCode >= 91 && e.keyCode <= 93) || e.ctrlKey)

[azaozz]

Replying to MattyRob:

I've found a fix.. line 7974 in tiny_mce is:

Thanks, will pass it on to the TinyMCE's developers.