If for example, I type the following sentence:
"A cat       sat on a mat." 
and position the cursor just after the word "cat", then press Ctrl+Delete,
the result is
"A cat on a mat."
I would expect gedit to only delete the whitespace until the next word, so I'd get:
"A cat sat on a mat."

The same goes for cases, where there's a line break after a lot of whitespace, which happens A LOT during programming. 

For example:

"A cat     "
"sat on a mat."

results in:

"A cat on a mat." 

again.

This is especially annoying while programming, since I lose the first keyword of the next line, when all I wanted was to join two lines.


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