Bug 108427

Summary: Direct cursor: Add option to insert only spaces
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) <samuel.mehrbrodt>
Component: WriterAssignee: Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) <samuel.mehrbrodt>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: ilmari.lauhakangas, samuel.mehrbrodt
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: target:6.0.0
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 102187, 112988    

Description Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2017-06-09 06:26:00 UTC
The direct cursor in Writer (can be enabled in Tools-Options-Direct Cursor) has the following modes:
* Paragraph alignment
* Left paragraph alignment
* Tabs
* Tabs and spaces

I suggest to add a new mode:
* Spaces
Comment 1 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2017-06-09 06:27:59 UTC
(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) from comment #0)
> The direct cursor in Writer (can be enabled in Tools-Options-Direct Cursor)

It is located here: Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> Formatting Aids -> Direct Cursor
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2017-06-11 14:10:58 UTC
Sounds good -> NEW
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2017-06-12 09:56:55 UTC
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=23cf6dbe4d35d0d9beeaa2193247c6f67a869c66

tdf#108427 Direct cursor: Add option to insert only spaces

It will be available in 6.0.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 Roman Kuznetsov 2017-06-19 18:25:09 UTC
IMHO, it allow users uses direct formatting even more instead using styles
Comment 5 Howard Johnson 2017-12-20 08:00:17 UTC
Thanks to all for this.


BTW, the direct cursor in Writer can be enabled in:
 
  Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - Formatting Aids. - Direct Cursor