[Camino] search field

[paulc]

At 12:01 PM -0400 5/10/06, camino-request at mozdev.org supposedly scribed:

>Hi. I have a suggestion for a minor feature change in Camino. Does 
>anyone else like this idea?
>
>Problem: When I want to do a Google search, there is usually old 
>search text in the search field at the top. I find that I usually 
>move the mouse to the field, click once, start typing, then realize 
>that my input has been inserted in the middle of the stale text so I 
>have to clear the field and start over.
>
>Current workaround: Either triple-click the text in the search field 
>before typing, or do shift-cmd-F (which is difficult to remember).
>
>Suggestion: Clicking in the search text field should select all of 
>the text so that typing the first character will erase the text to 
>begin the new search.
>
>Cons: Other browsers don't work this way.
>
>Comments?
>--Mark

Indeed, the current "default" behavior is more of a hindrance than a 
help. Let us remember that the whole "Google" search function is 
extensible; thanks to CamiTools, I have about 20 search engines 
listed in there, so I do actually use it a fair amount.

Click once and have all text selected would be the default behavior I 
would (vastly) prefer.

But I wonder about the whole issue of Cocoa widgets and editable text fields...