users have complained that if they paste some anchored object(s) in Writer, the object(s) are selected, while they prefer that the text cursor remain at the insert position. reportedly Word does the latter so of course we should do the same, say these users. on the other hand, other users may prefer the current behaviour? not clear...
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/6204dfeb53aefbc4de1c82a6bfc2f6903565f5c1 tdf#167833 sw: if an anchored object is pasted, don't select it It will be available in 26.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
the behaviour is configurable with expert config setting Office::Writer::Cursor::Option::SelectPastedAnchoredObject if necessary we can add a checkbox for it in Options, let's see if we can do without...