Issue 50014 - Ctrl backspace (under rare circumstances) deletes to the right of the cursor
Summary: Ctrl backspace (under rare circumstances) deletes to the right of the cursor
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: 680m104
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2005-05-29 20:41 UTC by haui
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:45 UTC (History)
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Description haui 2005-05-29 20:41:14 UTC 
Create a new presentation, enter the following text in the first line of a
slides text box:

   This is a text for for deletion testing.

Place the cursor directly after the second "for" (| marks the cursor here):

   This is a text for for| deletion testing.

Now press Ctrl-Backspace. The result (correct) result is:

   This is a text for | deletion testing.

There are now spaces around the cursor, one at the left and one at the right.
Now press Ctrl-Backspace again. The (unexpected) result is the following:

   This is a text for |deletion testing.

The space at the right of the cursor is deleted (instead of the space and word
to the left). I would have expected the following result:

   This is a text | deletion testing.

The impression from my last slide-editing session was that there are
circumstances, where more than just a space is deleted from the right of the
cursor, but I'm now unable to reproduce this phenomenon.

Surprisingly, Writer has no such problems. Are there really two separate text
edition engines in Writer and Presentation? Is this a bug or a feature?
Comment 1 wolframgarten 2005-05-30 08:05:39 UTC 
Reassigned.
Comment 2 nagashree 2005-05-31 11:25:15 UTC 
Confirming the issue
Comment 3 christian.guenther 2005-05-31 17:03:30 UTC 
I can reproduce the bug.
Please have a look.
Comment 4 haui 2005-06-21 17:14:05 UTC 
When fixing this, please consider Issue 51051 in one go.
Comment 5 kami911 2005-10-04 13:10:40 UTC 
Can yo resolve it in 2.0.1?
Comment 6 heavy 2005-10-20 23:41:37 UTC 
I can definitely confirm this bug in the 2.0 final release under Linux x86...I
have also noticed this bug on the release candidates as well. It appears to only
be a problem in Impress, but I have not done extensive testing in the other
programs. I believe it impacts both control+backspace and control+delete. It is
very annoying. :-)
Comment 7 haui 2005-10-21 09:42:03 UTC 
heavy wrote:
> ... It is very annoying. :-)

It is. For those little "things" that really makes you mad when using OOo, I
created a wiki page to get more attention to them. Feel free to add others :-)

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OOoAnnoyances
Comment 8 ace_dent 2008-10-22 15:29:51 UTC 
Just for info, some related problems:
 Issue 23872 - Deleting the space with ctrl+backspace/delete
 Issue 50014 - Ctrl backspace (under rare circumstances) deletes to the right of
the cursor
 Issue 51051 - Ctrl-delete deletes to the left, if a space follows the cursor
position

Regards,
Andrew
Comment 9 Regina Henschel 2014-10-19 20:06:25 UTC 
The wrong behavior remains after applying the fix for issue 23872. In Writer (which is issue 23872 about) the behavior is as expected. So this is not a duplicate of issue 23872.
Comment 10 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:45:16 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".