I noticed that Ctrl-X and such shortcuts won’t work when typing/editing a post for the SD. At least, from my PC. And, the “delete” key cannot be used instead of Backspace. Why is this? Is there some option I can set to recognize thes features?
They work for me in Firefox.
Ditto for me in Firefox.
Works perfectly fine for me in IE. All the normal shortcuts, all the insert/delete/home/etc. keys, everything.
What (s)he said - IE version 7.0.5760 on Windows XP
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I had the same thing happen to me for no apparent reason. The delete key did nothing and I could not control-v to paste.
The next day it worked fine.
I have problems on about half of my posts where there is a letter missing or remaining that I’m sure I added or deleted. I think the editor for the enter window in IE is simply not that good (i.e., buggy) and gets mixed up when you do too much editing.
So, what you see is not necessarily what you get posted.
One trick I’ve found is that I have and add-on called ieSpell. If I use that just before I post then the entry goes in just as it appears.
I would say that, in general: