850824 - Overwriting bullet point line removes bullet point

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites Graveyard :: etherpad.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

STR:

1) Enable a bullet-point-indented line, like:

---
* blah blah
---

2) select the entire line (both words) 
3) start typing to overwrite the text ("hello").

This will remove the bullet point so you end up with:

---
hello
---

Contrast that with: 
2) Select the entire line
3) **Press backspace** thus emptying the line
4) type "hello"

which results in
---
* hello
---

The bullet point remains.

This bug exists in both the classic etherpad and etherpad lite.

Comment 1

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Hmm not sure if this is a bug or working as intended. It may be a behavior of Ace.

:wenzel, does this work differently in other software, e.g. wordprocessors like google docs/MS word? I'd like to have some precedent when I talk to etherpad devs about this.

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Google Docs does not exhibit this behavior (the way docs does it feels right to me so I suspect that other popular word processors I've used in the distant past do not as well)

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Yeah, no word processor I've ever used works like comment 0. They are all consistent between overwriting and deleting, then typing.

I just checked with OpenOffice / LibreOffice and that works as expected too.

Comment 4

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Old etherpad has been decommissioned.

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

This was a bug in Etherpad Lite which we are now using, and it has since been fixed, I just confirmed that.

Onward!