877935 - Wrong ctrl+backspace and ctrl+delete behaviour

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[soshial]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

For example, we have this 2-lines text written (prior to 'word3' there are some spaces):

word1 word2
         word3

1) ctrl-backspace: The blinking cursor stands in the middle of the 2nd line, just before the 'w' letter of the 'word3'. After positing the cursor I push ctrl-backspace.

2) ctrl-delete: The blinking cursor stands at the end of the 1nd line, just after the '2' character of the 'word2'. After positing the cursor I push ctrl-delete.

Please, make the behaviour in both Linux and Windows uniform to other text editors.


Actual results:

1) If I push ctrl+backspace in Firefox (Win, Lin):
word1 word3

2) If i push ctrl+delete in Firefox (Win):
word1 word2         word3

If i push ctrl+delete in Firefox (Lin):
word1 word2


Expected results:

1) In all other editors: when I push "ctrl"+"backspace" the result is:
word1 word2word3

2) In all other editors: when I push "ctrl"+"delete" the result is:
word1 word2word3

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Please list explicitly the "other text editors" you tested. Thanks.

I tested your examples in Chrome 29 on Linux and it produces the same result as
Firefox (Nightly 24.0a1 2013-05-27) when editing in a plain-text control like
this comment box.

Comment 2

[soshial]

Yes, unfortunately, but the behaviour is erratic: it should not delete "word3".

I am referring to KDE kwrite/Kate text editors and JetBrains family of IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, PHPStorm, which was chosen by Google as a primary IDE for Android development).

I think that this behavious should be uniform in all OSes and editors. Thank you.

Comment 3

[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.