[Bug 23872] Deleting the space with ctrl+backspace/delete

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https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=23872

Dejan Budimir <pl...@gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Dejan Budimir <pl...@gmx.de> ---
This is by way of discussion. (I am still using OO-3.4.0, so I'm not sure
whether this is accurate).

The standard behavior might very well be a kind of statement, intended to
demonstrate that "this is not MS Office," but, given that even the basic
textarea editor i'm currently typing in adheres to the MS standard, it ends up
making a much more inclusive statement.

The main issue, however, is its inconsistency with what it is supposed to do
(at least in the old 3.4.0 version I'm still using).

1. Deleting from within a word (i.e. partial word-deletion) will delete to
start of word proper.

2. Deleting from end of word plus whitespace (i.e. from start of next word)
will delete to start of word proper.

3. Deleting from end of word proper, however, will delete to end of previous
word.

In other words, deleting at least a single character either more or less than
the length of the word, will "delete to start of word" otherwise it will
"delete to end of previous word".

Furthermore, ctrl-left will still jump to the beginning of a word proper, not
to the end of previous ones. When using ctrl-backspace one would therefore
expect this jumping to be mirrored in some way.

Finally, it is much quicker (or at least it feels much smoother) to do a
"ctrl-backspace, backspace" sequence (to get rid of the superfluous space)
manually, than to do a "ctrl-backspace, space" sequence. But maybe that's me.

That being said, however, since this can easily be worked around (by recording
a macro to simulate the sequence "Ctrl+Shift+Left, Delete") I, too, don't think
this such a huge problem at all.

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