https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173772
--- Comment #8 from Neil Roberts <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Neil Roberts from comment #6) > when you cut the text it shows you what the document will look like without > the text so you can check if it looks ok In the animation in the article, it actually does some sort of unexplained magic to fix the spaces. If you look closely the author doesn’t select any spaces around the sentence to be moved, but then when they paste it somehow there is only one space between the two sentences where the text has been removed. Without the magic it would leave two spaces and then the user would probably only notice it if the cut point happened to be on screen, and then they would have to move the cursor back to the two spaces to delete one of them. This wouldn’t happen with regular cut and paste. The ghost cut has an unusual property that it might modify the document at a location that is currently offscreen. I think that is pretty rare because usually any editing action you do on the document happens where the cursor is and the view will automatically scroll to that point to make sure you can see what happened. With the ghost-cut that is impossible because it is changing two places at once and it can’t put both onscreen. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
