155726 - Caret in Wrong Place After Deleting Text in Composition Window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Jerry Baker]

This is very easy to reproduce, but difficult to explain - please bear with me.

To reproduce this:

1) Make sure you are set to reply on the bottom.
2) Open Mail/News and select a long message to reply to, and hit the reply button.
3) When the message pops up and the cursor is below the message text ready for
text input, hold the SHIFT key down and use the up arrow to highlight a couple
of lines.
4) Press the DELETE key.

Result: The cursor appears at the end of the line immediately above where you
deleted. If you start typing, the text appears on the line below.

Expected: The cursor should be in the same position it was when you hit the
delete key.

<speculation> It behaves as if the CRLF is at the beginning of lines instead of
at the end of lines. It seems this way because when you delete a block of text,
it appears that the CRLF is deleted also </speculation>

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Reassign to editor

Comment 2

[Jerry Baker]

There is all kinds of wackiness with quoted text. Here's another one:

1) Find a message and hit reply.
2) Place the caret at the beginning of any line of quoted text and hit the
backspace key to move the line up to the next line.
3) Now hit return.

What happens:
The caret returns to the next line down, but the text that was to the right of
the caret is now two lines down on a line by itself.

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> text text text text text text text text
 > text text text text text text text text
^--caret
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After backspace
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> text text text text text text text text > text text text text text text text
text                                     ^--caret
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After return
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> text text text text text text text text

^--caret
> text text text text text text text text
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Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I can't reproduce the original report using TB 2b1-1122, Win2K.  Jerry Baker, do you still see this?

Comment 2 does behave like that, but only in mail.  This is just an extensions of the normal behavior of putting the caret in the middle of a quoted line and hitting Enter -- it opens up a space for you to type the (presumed) response to the text immediately preceding.  Similar behavior if you're composing as HTML, but the effects are much more difficult to work around without using Undo.

Comment 4

[Jerry Baker]

I haven't seen this in a while.