Bug 88474

Summary:	EDITING: Selection Mode is Reset to ‘Standard selection’ with Esc
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Harald Koester <harald.koester>
Component:	ux-advise	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise, qubit
Version:	4.3.5.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Harald Koester 2015-01-15 18:30:09 UTC

In order to reproduce the bug:

[1] Open new text document. 
[2] In the status bar select a selection mode which is not the ‘Standard selection’.
[3] Insert some text. 
[4] Select some text with the selected selection mode. 
[5] Suppose your selection is not correct and you like to make a new selection: Delete selection with ‘Esc’. The selection is deleted and the selection mode is reset to ‘Standard selection’. Expected: Selection mode should not change.

Bug also exists in version 4.4.0.2.

Comment 1 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-01-15 20:22:33 UTC

TESTING with LO 4.4.0.2 + Ubuntu 14.04

(In reply to Harald Koester from comment #0)
> In order to reproduce the bug:
> 
> [1] Open new text document. 
> [2] In the status bar select a selection mode which is not the ‘Standard
> selection’.

For those who don't use selection modes, here's some info:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Selection_Mode

> [3] Insert some text. 
> [4] Select some text with the selected selection mode. 
> [5] Suppose your selection is not correct and you like to make a new
> selection: Delete selection with ‘Esc’. The selection is deleted and the
> selection mode is reset to ‘Standard selection’. Expected: Selection mode
> should not change.

I can reproduce the behavior, but I'm not sure that it's a bug. I'll hand this to UX for their input.

Status -> NEW
Component -> ux-advise
Hardware -> (generalize)

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