I guess you didn't test hard enough then, because the issue absolutely
exists. Type two words in a gtk/qt app, press ctrl+backspace twice, both
words deleted. Try the same in anything written with edje entry and you've
still got one of the words.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:24:26 +0000 Michael Blumenkrantz
> <[email protected]> said:
>
> seriously. double click a word in a gtk text entry now... the space is NOT
> selected. just the word. hit backspace to delete the word selected and
> just the
> selected word is deleted and u end up with the "2 spaces" if there was a
> space
> before and after the word. i am doing it RIGHT now in gedit, sylpheed and
> thunderbird and it does EXACTLY this. now i test this in qt (kcachegrind)
> and
> PRESTO... the EXACT same thing. double click a word to select it and JUST
> the
> word is selected, NOT the trailing space. hit del and JUST the word is
> deleted.
>
> http://www.enlightenment.org/~raster/word-sel-del-gtk.ogv
> http://www.enlightenment.org/~raster/word-sel-del-qt.ogv
>
> i don't know what you have been smoking but there is proof. edje entry
> behaviour is 100% consistent with gtk and qt (i cant speak for windows,
> java,
> macos etc.) in the above regard.
>
> > I'd like to call everyone's attention to
> > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/2206
> >
> > I (and a number of others) have been complaining very vocally about this
> > issue for over a year, and it has yet to be taken seriously or fixed.
> This
> > is a significant problem for anyone wanting to use EFL text input, and it
> > absolutely needs to be fixed before the 1.8 release.
> >
> > For those who can't access the trac ticket, this is regarding the
> arbitrary
> > way that word selection works in edje entry, and how it functions
> > contrarily to text input in every other toolkit and OS that I've tested.
> >
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