RFR: 8267374: (macos) Option+Up/Down arrow dont traverse to beginning/end of line in textarea

Wed Jun 22 06:27:02 UTC 2022

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 03:28:17 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Unlike in native "Notes" editor where Option+Up/Down traverses to start/end of each line respectively,
> Java does not honour these key combination in editor.
> 
> Added the key combination support by moving the caret to start/end of line and then doing caret up/down a line depending on if we are pressing UP or DOWN key.

Is it possible that the submitter tested the right option key? I think it stopped working somewhere after jdk8 as described in the JBS.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9230