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

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[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)

** Affects: abiword
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: abiword (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cherry-pick patch trusty
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SHIFT-CTRL-CURSOR_KEY combos don't work anymore to select text
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315949
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