https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65434

--- Comment #16 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #12)
> (In reply to jddcef from comment #11)
> > Well, if someone wants to delete all their work, they can press backspace or
> > delete.
> 
> When you select anything, and press a key that inserts a character "a", you
> expect the text to be overwritten by the new character "a".
> 
> > It's way more crazy to have everything overwritten by pressing TAB
> > rather than 
> > "oh shame something has changed, I wanted to delete it but instead I
> > indented it".
> 
> It's strange to have one character "a" overwrite selection, and another
> "Tab" to do strange things instead.

It is not strange actually. Tab key by design was not intended to be just a
character. It has multiple uses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key)
including switching fields in a form.

LO's implementation should follow the general trend at least, if it is not an
improvement.
Please see this:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/tab-key-no-contextual-behavior/51521/2

Regards

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