`api.iunmap("<Ctrl-a>");` no longer works

[aspiers]

Error details

At some point the default binding for Ctrl-a changed to beginning of line, so that it can no longer be used for selecting all text. According to #2285, #2290, and #2293, the correct workaround is:

api.iunmap("<Ctrl-a>");

This worked for me for a few weeks; however now it has no effect and I cannot get Ctrl-a back to its original behaviour of "Select all", which I have been used to for about 30 years.

SurfingKeys: 1.17.9

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

URL: any page where Surfingkeys is enabled.

Context

• Press i to enter any text input field

[brookhong]

Just tested with Chrome in Ubuntu, it works for me.

[aspiers]

I just tested Surfingkeys 1.17.9 in incognito mode in Chrome 133.0.6943.53 with no other extensions running and with this config:

api.iunmap("<Ctrl-a>");
api.iunmap("<Ctrl-e>");

Here was my exact process:

• Turn extension off and on again via chrome://extensions/
• Open incognito window
• Visit https://google.com
• Click "Accept all"
• Press i to focus the Google search bar
• Type asldfkasdflkj
• Press Ctrl-a
• Observe cursor moves to beginning of line, instead of selecting all the text

If I repeat the above with the extension disabled, then of course i does not work (as expected), and Ctrl-a selects all the text as expected.

[NickyKatze]

I have the same issue.

Select all does not work when:

• i was pressed to jump to a text box,
• f was pressed to click on the text box
• text box was selected via the mouse click

UPD: fixed the issue

How to fix:

• open SurfingKeys settings
• switch to advanced mode if not yet activated
• delete all code in settings (don't forget to back it up)
• save
• edit settings again and add everything back
• save again

This should resolve the problem. At least it did for me.

[tuanbass]

I have the same issue.

Select all does not work when:

• i was pressed to jump to a text box,
• f was pressed to click on the text box
• text box was selected via the mouse click

UPD: fixed the issue

How to fix:

• open SurfingKeys settings
• switch to advanced mode if not yet activated
• delete all code in settings (don't forget to back it up)
• save
• edit settings again and add everything back
• save again

This should resolve the problem. At least it did for me.

Also work for me. You made my day....
spent few hours of try and error before ocme to this issue
Thanks