Bug 115618

Summary: Copy + Return and than Paste does nothing in Calc
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: MarjaE <erwinm>
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG    
Severity: trivial CC: telesto
Priority: lowest    
Version: 5.4.4.2 release   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: All   
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Description MarjaE 2018-02-10 20:05:14 UTC 
Description:
Copy + Paste does nothing in Calc

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Keyboard over to the source cell. Command-C to copy.
2. Return to stop the marching migraine ants.
3. Keyboard over to the destination cell. Command-V to paste.

Actual Results:  
3. Command-V to paste does nothing.

Expected Results:
3. Command-V to paste should paste the copied text.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
See bug 35077 for the marching migraine ants.

Confirmed in 5.4.4.2. Same bug in NeoOffice. May be inherited from OpenOffice.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Comment 1 Telesto 2018-02-11 19:47:31 UTC 
Repro with 6.1.0.0
Comment 2 Telesto 2018-02-11 20:31:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Gilward Kukel 2018-02-12 16:04:44 UTC 
While there are "marching ants", this happens when you press these keys:
- pressing Return inserts from the clipboard, empties the clipboard and removes the ants.
- pressing Escape removes the ants.
- pressing Ctrl+V inserts from the clipboard.
Comment 4 Telesto 2018-02-12 19:06:02 UTC 
(In reply to Gilward Kukel from comment #3)
> While there are "marching ants", this happens when you press these keys:
> - pressing Return inserts from the clipboard, empties the clipboard and
> removes the ants.
> - pressing Escape removes the ants.
> - pressing Ctrl+V inserts from the clipboard.

@MarjaE
This doesn't seem to be a bug after all. MS office seems the work the same way..
So personally tend to close this one. There are two workarounds:

* Use Escape instead of Enter
* By disabling the "marching ants"
Comment 5 Telesto 2018-02-15 12:10:49 UTC 
Setting this back to UNCONFIRMED for now. Not sure if this behaviour should be marked as by design.
Comment 6 Timur 2018-02-15 13:33:33 UTC 
Steps from Description don't make sense. 
Why would you press Return? We can say you quit from copying. Otherwise use Esc.
Not worth going into and I'd say not a bug.
Comment 7 MarjaE 2018-02-15 14:04:12 UTC 
"Why would you press Return?"

So I can see what I'm trying to do, and so I don't get a migraine.

"Otherwise use Esc."

It's not an obvious solution in Calc, except perhaps to Excel users, and not a solution in Draw, where it loses focus. That said the expert-level hack to disable the animation is a more effective solution in both Calc, and Draw.