Bug 129100 - When editing involves deleting text that includes one or more spaces and inserting text that also includes one or more spaces, LibreOffice Writer 6.3.3 outputs the spaces first followed by text without any spaces.
Summary: When editing involves deleting text that includes one or more spaces and inse...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Blocks: AutoCorrect-Complete
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Reported: 2019-11-29 15:19 UTC by Jeff Melton
Modified: 2021-02-26 09:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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info from Help/About LibreOffice (41.58 KB, image/png)
2019-12-02 13:59 UTC, Jeff Melton 		Details
Screenshot of Patreon Post window displaying the missing spaces after c/p. (13.52 KB, image/jpeg)
2021-02-26 09:36 UTC, fmoebius 		Details
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Description Jeff Melton 2019-11-29 15:19:23 UTC 
Description:
When editing involves inserting a comma, LibreOffice Writer 6.3.3 outputs space comma rather than what has been typed, comma followed by a space. When a correction involves multiple words, it inserts ALL of the spaces between the words immediately after the word just prior to the correction.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete comma and the space following it.
2.Insert comma, space, and one or more additional words.
3.

Actual Results:
Comma space becomes space comma. Comma space becomes, for instance, space space space space comma wordswithnospaces if you insert a comma, space, and four words.

Expected Results:
The comma should appear immediately after the word prior to the edit, and there should be only one space appearing immediately after it.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Comment 1 Timur 2019-12-01 17:22:16 UTC 
Please write locale in your documents and try without Auto Correct.
Comment 2 Dieter 2019-12-02 07:05:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Jeff Melton 2019-12-02 11:48:54 UTC 
The error does not seem to occur if I turn off autocorrect. I'm not sure what you mean by "write locale in your documents." Did you want me to submit a document here? The locale is US English.

Further information: The error also occurs, under the same circumstances, with periods as well as commmas. Again, it has not occurred so far with autocorrect turned off.
Comment 4 Dieter 2019-12-02 12:37:45 UTC 
(In reply to Jeff Melton from comment #3)
> The error does not seem to occur if I turn off autocorrect.

So perhaps the problem is related to your user profile. Could you please reset your Libreoffice profile (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile) and re-test? I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the issue is still present


> what you mean by "write locale in your documents."

Just paste informations from Help => About LibreOffice
Comment 5 Timur 2019-12-02 12:46:56 UTC 
Sounds like text is French. Please experiment with AutoCorrect options. 
Would be useful if you could attach minimal sample document, without personal info.
Comment 6 Jeff Melton 2019-12-02 13:59:44 UTC 
Created attachment 156249 [details]
info from Help/About LibreOffice
Comment 7 Jeff Melton 2019-12-02 14:02:49 UTC 
After resetting the user profile, the bug persists. To update info about when it occurs, it happens when ANY text that contains one or more spaces is highlighted and deleted, and the replacement text contains one or more spaces. The error does NOT occur if autocorrect is turned off.
Comment 8 Dieter 2019-12-02 14:14:11 UTC 
I can't reproduce it with

Version: 6.3.4.1 (x64)
Build-ID: a21169d87339dfa44546f33d6d159e89881e9d92
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded

But perhaps I did the wrong steps. Is it possible for you to add a screencast, so that steps to reproduce are more visible?
Comment 9 Jeff Melton 2019-12-02 14:52:32 UTC 
Update: Now that I have reset my user profile, closed the document in which I was reproducing the error, and opened a different document, I am no longer getting the error. Is it possible that a corrupted user profile was the problem, but somehow fixing the user profile didn't fix the problem in the document I had open at the time?

I tried screencasting reproduction of the error as someone suggested above, but Kazam froze when I attempted to use it for screencasting. But I guess it's moot to do a screencast if I am now not getting the error.
Comment 10 Dieter 2019-12-02 15:02:27 UTC 
(In reply to Jeff Melton from comment #9)
> Update: Now that I have reset my user profile, closed the document in which
> I was reproducing the error, and opened a different document, I am no longer
> getting the error. Is it possible that a corrupted user profile was the
> problem, but somehow fixing the user profile didn't fix the problem in the
> document I had open at the time?

I'm not sure for 100%, but I think you have to reopen LO to use the new user profile. So - if I understand it correct - you're not longer able to repruduce the bug. So I close it as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. Please feel free to change it back to UNCONFIRMED, if I misunderstood you are the problem occurs again.
Comment 11 Jeff Melton 2019-12-02 16:04:56 UTC 
It's happening again. I'm in the same document that I was in when it temporarily stopped happening.
Comment 12 Timur 2019-12-03 10:58:59 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 13 Dieter 2019-12-09 12:04:33 UTC 
(In reply to Timur from comment #12)
> please attach minimal sample document, without personal info.

=> NEEDINFO
Comment 14 QA Administrators 2020-06-07 03:48:42 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 15 QA Administrators 2020-07-08 03:42:59 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 16 fmoebius 2021-02-26 09:36:07 UTC 
Created attachment 170069 [details]
Screenshot of Patreon Post window displaying the missing spaces after c/p.