(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.
Sounds to me really more like a bug, than a feature ;-) Adding to our Easy Hacks, should be relatively easy to sort out.
Created attachment 43625 [details] fix to enable backspace with any modifier The attached fix works well on my environment. Could someone review it?
The patch looks most excellent! Pushed to master. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/calc/commit/?id=aa33ba2fa28a538e807f0925de5a485706943140
Hi Takeshi, Could you move this task to the Completed page (if you haven't already)? Thanks a lot.
Ah wait. This is one of those Easy Hacks bugs. Sorry, ignore me then.
EasyHack tags unification: tags only allowed in Whiteboard to make queries more easy and reliable
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack) [NinjaEdit]