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Bug 262763 - Caret navigation by word forward goes to ends of words; should to to beginnings of words
Caret navigation by word forward goes to ends of words; should to to beginnin...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Rendering
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: Future
Assigned To: mengjie yu
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 271192
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-10 05:01 UTC by korn
Modified: 2005-01-20 13:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description korn 2004-08-10 05:01:55 UTC
Description of Problem: The general desktop convention is that when moving
the caret a word at a time forward (to the right), the caret should be
placed at the beginning of words, not at their ends.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Launch Evolution, enter your password.
2. Launch Gnopernicus
3. Select your inbox, and bring up the default e-mail message (in this
tester's case it is the "Getting Started" message from Sun Microsystems as
part of the Sun Java Desktop).
4. Press tab a few times until you bring focus to the e-mail message itself.
5. Press F7 to turn keyboard navigation on [Note: this should probably
display a warning message, as now happens in Mozilla when pressing F7]. 
Note that a text caret now appears within the document
6. Press down arrow a few times, until you get into the body of the message. 
7. Press Shift-right-arrow to move by word forward.  Note that the caret is
always placed at the ed of a word, not the beginning [BUG].  Now press
shift-left-arrow.  Note that the caret is placed at the beginning of words
(correct).
Comment 1 mengjie yu 2005-01-20 11:38:17 UTC
To some extent, I  regard it  as a linux convention.
Actually, in Gedit and Emacs, we can see that Ctrl +
Right-Arrow-Button  alawys places the caret at the end of a word.

So, this may not be a bug. Close it.
Comment 2 bill.haneman 2005-01-20 13:01:36 UTC
Peter: the behavior is consistent between mozilla, gedit, and
evolution, as far as I can see.  So probably Menjie is correct.