Command-Left should not navigate while text field has focus

michaelt

The command left-arrow keyboard shortcut on macOS is used to move to the beginning of the line. But if it's used within Orion while editing in a text field, it navigates back in the history. This often results in losing the contents of the form that one has been entering.

I, and presumably many other macOS users, use this keyboard shortcut regularly to navigate text, so it's pretty important that while a text field is focused, it shouldn't affect navigation.

Using the keyboard shortcut in a text field should simply move to the beginning of the line as is standard on macOS.

Version 0.99.138-beta (WebKit 623.1.8.0.0) Build date November 18, 2025 MacBook Pro (macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 build 24G90)

Sequoia (15)

astruckm

michaelt Thank you for reporting your issue.

I do not reproduce this, testing on Orion version 1.0.0 (139) in a few text boxes such as the Orion Location Bar, Notes, kagi.com search field.

Is there a particular text box, or fields within a particular site, where you encounter this issue? Alternately, any other condition in particular that might affect the keyboard shortcut (a particular keyboard Input Source, keyboard hardware, etc.)?

michaelt

Ah, right you are: This seems to not happen on all text fields. I beg your pardon!

I'm seeing it consistently within the Wordpress editor, though, whether it's in WYSIWYG mode or not. I'm not seeing it in the editor field here, though, or the one on a few other forums I've tried. It also doesn't happen in Google Docs, etc.

Input source/hardware doesn't seem to make any difference.