200233 - Delete forward word gets following punctuation too

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[Uri Dor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

If I press ctrl+del at the beginning of "word...", the whole string is deleted,
including the periods and the closing quotes. The same goes for shift+ctrl+right
arrow. Double-clicking, however, will only select the word, as it should.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to this bug's "details"
2. put the caret after the first quotes
3. ctrl+del or shift+ctrl+right arrow

Actual Results:  
the whole string is deleted/selected.

Expected Results:  
only select/delete "word"

possibly related to #181926

Comment 1

[Jeff D. Hanson]

Confirmed:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030604

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

Confirmed that this is a problem in Firefox 1.0x textareas and I doubt anyone
has fixed it.  It is probably a duplicate of another bug but I can't find it
right now.

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

word...

Comment 5

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.