Phil, You surely do NOT need my approval :-)
I was just asking since it seems consistent with other things in libre office. Now I am curious about a field as the last thing in a document. :-) Had not considered using ESC to put the cursor out of a field, on the surface it feels like a really smart solution, but to be clear, if the devs choose to simply have an adjacent chair always be outside the field I would not complain, it would solve the end of document problem but makes it more difficult to append text in a field or deal with a one character looking field. The zero length field... Uggg. Had not considered that one. I am very happy to see how thoroughly y'all are working to get a correct solution. Andrew. Get BlueMail for Android On Aug 19, 2022, 7:26 PM, at 7:26 PM, Phillips Rogfield <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >You are right that by putting the cursor to the left it writes normal >text. It only happens when you put the cursor to the right of the >field. > >It is not necessary that the field is the last thing in a file. It is >sufficient it is the last thing in a paragraph. In this case you won't >be able to insert text after the field without expanding the field. At >least it will be not so simple. You will have to press Enter, space, >left arrow, backspace, right arrow, and type. > >I also noticed an exception: if you don't select anything, and do >Insert >-> Cross Reference -> Set Reference, type a name, press Insert and >then >Close, it will insert an empty reference (which I have no idea why it >differs conceptually from a bookmark?). This empty reference will be >not >modifiable: nor by putting the cursor to the left nor to the right, the > >text of the reference will stay empty. > >So exception aside, I think maybe a good compromise would be that, if >the user put the cursor on the right of a field, and press "Esc", it >will start to type outside of the field, without expanding the field? >Would that work? > >Best, > >Phil > >On 19/08/2022 16:04, Andrew Pitonyak wrote: >> The general expected behavior in libre office, at least for me, is >> that if I place the cursor and start typing, that it will continue >> using the same attributes and properties of the character directly to > >> the left of the cursor. So, if I have bold text, and I placed the >> cursor to the left of the bold text and I type, it will not be bold, >> it will be whatever is to the left of the cursor. If the cursor is >> immediately to the right of the bold text however then it will be >bold. >> >> In this case, I assume, but have not verified or checked in anyway, >> references are a field. So the intent of this is to make certain that > >> when the cursor is sitting directly to the left or right of, whatever > >> is typed does not end up inside of that field. One side effect of >this >> I expect, is that if you have a field with only one character you >will >> have no way of modifying the text inside the field unless there is >> some special case when the text of the field is selected. I did not >> even check, can I select the text in a field? So what if the >selection >> is partially in a field? >> >> I would never have considered this a bug, I would have just >considered >> it an extension of expected behavior. The annoying part is that if >the >> field is the last thing in a file you have no way to add text after >> the field unless you do it programmatically, but that is also true >> last I checked of text tables. >> >> I hope other contributors to comments in the bugs are correct that it > >> is an easy fix, but I am skeptical. >> >> Get BlueMail for Android <https://bluemail.me> >> On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:41 AM, Phillips Rogfield ><[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Dear developers, >> >> I would like to fix bug 81720 >> <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81720#c22>. >> >> Basically when you insert a ReferenceMark, if you put the cursor >> at the edge of it (start or end), and type something, it will >> expand on the reference mark instead of writing it as a “normal >text”. >> >> You can find how to reproduce it in comment 22 >> <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81720#c22>. >> >> I have set up my environment, but I’m not sure where is the code >> that “checks” if something is a ReferenceMark, if anything. >> >> Can you point me in the right direction, please? >> >> Best, >> >> Phil >> >> >>
