Subject: Re: patch -- bug 10
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 23:15:09 CST
>Since this appears contentious, I agree that it should NOT be in 0.7.8.
>
>That said, here is the result of my investigation into this problem:
>
>Here is WordPerfect for Linux's behavior:
>
>On double-click, only the word appears selected. If you double-click on
>an area of whitespace, the whitespace, and nothing else is selected. If
>you apply formating to the selected to the selected word, only the word is
>affected. If you delete the word, the word and the space following it are
>deleted. This behavior does not wrap accross line breaks, soft or hard.
This is identical to MSWord behavior as well. Given that both WordPerfect
and MSWord work this way, I would think AbiWord should behave this way as
well. MSWord also treats tabs and control-arrow the same way as described
too.
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
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