Bug 82718

Summary:	Ranged comments in Writer silently break when deleting from the beginning of the string
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEEDINFO ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	todventtu
Version:	4.2.6.2 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	screencast no1 screencast no2 sample document sample broken resulting document

Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:48:27 UTC

This is really tricky to explain so I'm attaching screencasts, but basically if you press the Delete key in front of the first character of a ranged comment, it will silently delete the comment but not show you that it did in the UI, until you reopen the saved document and find a "phantom" comment. Pretty big deal as it is unexpected data loss.

It should either clearly delete the comment immediately (and thus allow me to undo that) or not ever delete the comment, just convert it to a non-ranged comment (which in turn can be deleted if you really want to).

Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:49:21 UTC

Created attachment 104744 [details]
screencast no1

Comment 2 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:49:58 UTC

Created attachment 104745 [details]
screencast no2

Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:51:02 UTC

Created attachment 104746 [details]
sample document

Comment 4 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:51:20 UTC

Created attachment 104747 [details]
sample broken resulting document

Comment 5 Beluga 2014-11-12 10:41:16 UTC

I can't reproduce "le bork" on Win 7 or Ubuntu. Even the attached supposedly broken document has the comments preserved!
Note: contrary to the screencast, if I press left arrow twice at the "i" of ipsum, I go to Lorem and do not stay put.

Can you test with 4.3.x and report here? If it works ok, change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
Build ID: b021b5983c62e266b82d9f0c5c6d8d8900553827
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-12_00:19:18

Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
Build ID: 1c526c9ddda5d52f7a4db5655a4ec60b8c62835c
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF-dbg, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-11_23:20:41

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