https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173519
Bug ID: 173519
Summary: Writer jumps to another cell when CTRL+DELeting words
in a table
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.2.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
CTRL+DEL has a unintended behavior when it is used in a table cell: it jumps to
another cell.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Writer, create a table, eg 4 x 4
2. Write a short text in all the cells
3. Place your cursor at the beginning of the text in cell 1, and press CTRL+DEL
to erase words
Actual Results:
Writer erases the words, but after finishing the text in the current cell it
jumps to the next cell, so if you don't stop pressing CTRL+DEL you will
eventually erase all the text in the whole table.
Expected Results:
CTRL+DEL should behave exactly like DEL key: erase only the text of the current
cell. If there is no more text in the current cell, CTRL+DEL (just like DEL
alone) has nothing to erase, therefore should do nothing.
1) If the user wants to erase text from many cells, there are other, more
efficient ways to do it.
2) the only "effect" of adding CTRL to DEL is to erase entire words instead of
characters, thus making the deleting faster.
3) if this jumping to other cell is the intended behavior (which I doubt?),
then there is a contradiction with the DEL key and this would make a poor UX
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
Version: 26.2.5.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 620(Build:2)
CPU threads: 24; OS: Linux 7.0; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:26.2.5.2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~lo1
Calc: threaded
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