Bug 32574

Summary: UI: Shift-Backspace doesn't work correctly
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Spreader <spreaderfd>
Component: SpreadsheetAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: LibreOffice, libreoffice, tabe
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: EasyHack target:3.4
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: fix to enable backspace with any modifier

Description Spreader 2010-12-22 05:51:30 UTC 
(this bug was reported as bug #113901 in OOo, but since nobody is working on it there I'm refiling it here. I'm not sure what the official policy is: is refiling bugs for LibreOffice a good or a bad idea?)


When entering cell data, Shift-Backspace acts like Enter. As a result, when
you're typing something such as "Just saying HEM<shift-backspace>LLO", the whole
contents of the cell disappear to only contain "LLO". This is a very confusing
behavior, especially since virtually all applications define Shift-Backspace as
equivalent to Backspace (including Excel, word processors including OOo Writer,
browsers like IE/Firefox/Chrome...). So the user is likely not even aware that
he's pressing Shift-Backspace instead of Backspace, he just sees the contents of
the cell disappear spontaneously!

This issue is made worse on some international keyboards such as AZERTY (French)
because unless you have a numeric keypad they require you to use Shift to type
numbers. Since spreadsheets use a lot of numbers this bug is even more likely to
appear on these layouts.
Comment 1 Jan Holesovsky 2010-12-22 07:24:38 UTC 
Sounds to me really more like a bug, than a feature ;-)  Adding to our Easy Hacks, should be relatively easy to sort out.
Comment 2 Takeshi Abe 2011-02-21 15:04:27 UTC 
Created attachment 43625 [details] [review]
fix to enable backspace with any modifier

The attached fix works well on my environment.
Could someone review it?
Comment 3 Kohei Yoshida (inactive) 2011-02-22 08:59:19 UTC 
The patch looks most excellent!  Pushed to master.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/calc/commit/?id=aa33ba2fa28a538e807f0925de5a485706943140
Comment 4 Kohei Yoshida (inactive) 2011-02-22 11:32:09 UTC 
Hi Takeshi,  Could you move this task to the Completed page (if you haven't already)?  Thanks a lot.
Comment 5 Kohei Yoshida (inactive) 2011-02-22 11:33:04 UTC 
Ah wait.  This is one of those Easy Hacks bugs.  Sorry, ignore me then.
Comment 6 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-04-10 02:40:59 UTC 
EasyHack tags unification: tags only allowed in Whiteboard to make queries more easy and reliable

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