[Bug 1315949] Re: SHIFT-CTRL-CURSOR_KEY combos don't work anymore to select text

[Iain Lane]

I uploaded the SRU, thanks.

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Thomas Ward (teward)

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Title:
  SHIFT-CTRL-CURSOR_KEY combos don't work anymore to select text

Status in AbiWord:
  Fix Released
Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “abiword” source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  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:

  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.

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  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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