https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74375
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 74375
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: EDITING: Option to enable editing keys (cursor, Home,
etc.) on first entry of text into cell
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: NEW
Version: 4.1.4.2 release
Component: Spreadsheet
Product: LibreOffice
LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 on Ubuntu 13.04.
1. Create a new Calc document.
2. Enter a value in a cell not in the 1st or 2nd column, say cell E1. The
reason for this will be stated in a later paragraph.
3. Double-click a cell in an intermediate column, say cell B1.
4. Type 2 words of text (with a space between them), but don't press Enter
yet.
5. Press one of the editing keys, say, CursorLeft.
6. Issue: Calc will stop editing the cell, and the cell cursor (the thick
black rectangle) will move to a different cell.
7. Double-click cell B1 again to resume editing it.
8. Now the editing keys (Home, End, cursor keys, whatever) work within the
text in the active cell. The difference seems to be that step 5 is during the
first entry of a value into the cell, whereas step 8 is in editing a cell that
already has a value. Typing the space in step 4 seems to trigger this
difference in behaviour.
Please add an option to allow editing keys (step 5) to work as in step 8.
The current behaviour can be very annoying when entering lots of text into a
spreadsheet, since almost every cell can have a typing mistake at first, so
cell editing will get interrupted in almost every cell when the user
reflexively presses an editing key to fix the typing mistake.
The reason for step 2 is to show that the End key in step 5 has the same
problem as the cursor keys. (If the End key is pressed in step 5, the cell
cursor will move to column E.)
The reason for editing text not in the first column is to show that the Home
and CursorLeft keys have the same problem as the other keys (moving the cell
cursor to column A).
The requested feature will cause cell editing to be different than in Microsoft
Office. (In my opinion, having the editing keys work differently on the first
edit to a cell than on later edits is a misfeature which LO, or really OOo,
duplicated from MS Office.)
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