GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 262763
Caret navigation by word forward goes to ends of words; should to to beginnings of words
Last modified: 2005-01-20 13:01:36 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).
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.
Peter: the behavior is consistent between mozilla, gedit, and evolution, as far as I can see. So probably Menjie is correct.