email text suddenly erases while typing an email
The following happens from time to time and when it is a detailed email the result is annoying. I do not type expertly and I am sure this handicap is the source of the problem.
While typing an email text I will hit some key, or most likely inadvertent combination of keys, and the entire text I have typed is erased.
What combination of keys causes this problem, if that indeed is the source? Any way to permanently prevent by disabling something or another?
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My guess is you hit Ctrl+A instead of Shift+A to type a capital A
Ctrl+A is a select all shortcut. So selecting it and then typing a letter would see everything but the last typed character disappear. In this circumstance undo is usually very helpful (Ctrl+Z) as Thunderbird maintains multiple levels of undo you can go back two or three steps by repeatedly selecting Ctrl+Z.
Not the case here. In the cases I remember I hit two keys at one with one finger and who know what the other hand was doing, but it was not hitting a control key.