** Description changed: - If you want to select a word of text, you could do SHIFT-CTRL- - CURSOR_KEY. It's a very common shortcut, but in the version - 3.0.0-4ubuntu1 of the package abiword, this combo doesn't work anymore - (it worked in previous versions). + [Impact] - The bug has been already reported here: - http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13596 and it was solved - too with a patch fix ( - http://bugzilla.abisource.com/attachment.cgi?id=5695&action=view ). + This bug affects all the users that are used to the common shortcut to + select words of text in a generic text editor / word processing + software: - I attached that bugfix here for your convenience. + the "CTRL + SHIFT + LEFT/RIGHT CURSOR KEY" combo. + + This shortcut is, from decades, a "de facto standard" in nearly all the + text/word processing software with a GUI. It's not a missing feature of + Abiword, because previous versions of it had this functionality, but in + the package from the current ubuntu repositories (3.0.0-4ubuntu1) it + doesn't work anymore. + + The impact of the bug depends from the user habits. If you are like me, + ie you are used to select entire words of text with this combo very + often, Abiword will seem almost inusable to you. + + Notice that the bug was already reported, fixed and committed some + months ago by the Abiword dev team in the svn of the stable release + branch: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13596 + + + [Test Case] + + The bug is very simple to reproduce: open Abiword, write some words and + try to use the standard CTRL-SHIFT-LEFT/RIGHT_CURSOR_KEY combo to select + the words faster. You will see that it doesn't work, albeit the CTRL- + LEFT/RIGHT_CURSOR_KEY combo work as expected to make the cursor jump + between words. + + + [Regression Potential] + + I don't see particular regression problems from the reported fix, and + abiword dev team should think in the same way if they committed the fix + to their stable branch. The patchfix is very small... From what I can + see, only an "if" condition added to the previous code. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + I attached the bugfix from bugzilla.abisource.com here for your + convenience. Cheers, amigamagic ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: abiword 3.0.0-4ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sun May 4 23:45:06 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-12 (22 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140411) SourcePackage: abiword UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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