| Summary: | EDITING: Jumping to an uneditable location on a page | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) <philipz85> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ Master | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 112988 | ||
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Description
Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
2015-04-10 10:03:29 UTC
Hi Jay What you describe sounds a lot like the direct cursor functionality. If I remember correctly it was activated by default in the past but not anymore. To activate it: Open Writer Go to Tools -> Options... In the Options dialog select: LibreOffice Writer -> Formatting Aids -> Direct Cursor Is this what you describe? It would need a lot of guesses about what the user is trying to achieve. So I'll leave here a few possibilities: * If the click is near center of the page, then use centered text. * If the click is near right side of page use right-aligned text. * If none of the above, then use tabs from the left. (should it stick to the closest tab stop or change the paragraph to match the click?) * If click is below the end of text lines, add as many empty lines (paragraphs) as needed. Other possibilities are first-line indentation vs full paragraph indentation, column breaks. Also if on by default, it would horribly break my current workflow where I place cursor by clicking somewhere on the right side of text. Hi Niklas, (In reply to Niklas Johansson from comment #1) > What you describe sounds a lot like the direct cursor functionality. If I > remember correctly it was activated by default in the past but not anymore. Yes it is similar to what i was describing, though it is limited to only the first, center and last of a line. > Yes it is similar to what i was describing, though it is limited to only the
> first, center and last of a line.
Actually it isn't, look at the insert options directly below in the Options dialog. ;)
Maybe changing the default to tabs and spaces would be better?
Personally I'm not especially found of the feature, even though I can see a use for it from time to time.
It would be nice if the help-file about this would be a bit more explicit and list the insert options.
We're replacing our use of the 'ux-advise' component with a keyword: Component -> LibreOffice Add Keyword: needsUXEval [NinjaEdit] Resolving the ticket as WFM because direct cursor works, but it's more a WF for me since the use case is unclear. In comment 2 the question is asked: What is the 'click on uneditable location' good for, answered with whitespace variants. But why should a user need to insert whitespace by just clicking somewhere? Yes Edit > Direct Cursor Mode is now available in the menu to provide this functionality. |