Bug 55622 - EDITING: Writer jumps to beginning of document when undoing the pasting of a frame
Summary: EDITING: Writer jumps to beginning of document when undoing the pasting of a ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.4 release
Hardware: Other All
: high minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 107482 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Writer-View-Jumps
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Reported: 2012-10-04 12:56 UTC by stfhell
Modified: 2024-02-18 03:12 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Sample document with frames (49.04 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2012-10-04 12:56 UTC, stfhell
Details
jump.odt: another sample document to confirm the bug (68.74 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2012-10-26 15:25 UTC, stfhell
Details

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Description stfhell 2012-10-04 12:56:37 UTC
Created attachment 68079 [details]
Sample document with frames

When you copy and paste a frame in Writer, the cursor often jumps to the beginning (and sometimes the end) of the document.

This does not happen every time, even in the same document, so the behaviour is not 100% reproducible. I include an attachment where Writer jumps to the beginning of the document after pasting a few frames or undoing a paste.

Steps to reproduce:

(1) Open LO_paste_frame.odt and go to Chapter "Copy and paste a frame!".

(2) Mark the first frame of the chapter "(( copy this frame and paste it ))".

(3a) Copy the frame via Ctrl-C and insert it from the clipboard via Ctrl-V a few times on the same or following page.

(3b) Or: Insert it via Ctrl-V and undo the insertion via Ctrl-Z.

When I copy and paste the frame, it takes about 5-10 tries until Writer jumps to the beginning of the document. When I undo an insert, it always does.


Tested with LibreOffice version 3.5.4.2, but the bug has been present in OpenOffice/LibreOffice for some years.
Comment 1 stfhell 2012-10-26 15:25:21 UTC
Created attachment 69116 [details]
jump.odt: another sample document to confirm the bug

Go to p. 7 of the document and anchor the frame in the top right margin "to paragraph" instead of "to charatcer". LO jumps to the last page of the document. Tested with LO 3.5.4.2 and LO 3.6.2.2 under Ubuntu 12.04.
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2013-04-30 12:21:58 UTC
Checked with:
LO 4.0.2.2
Build ID: own W7 debug build
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

(In reply to comment #0)
> When you copy and paste a frame in Writer, the cursor often jumps to the
> beginning (and sometimes the end) of the document.
> This does not happen every time

Tried few times and could not reproduce.

> When I undo an insert, it always does.

Confirmed - it jumps to the beginning and sometimes to the end of document.
Comment 3 Joel Madero 2013-06-24 17:28:52 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue! I have been able to confirm the issue on:
Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+Build ID: b0a1666f756aa5f5315366eca9d7d02ddd55d2b
Date:   Tue May 28 08:51:01 2013 +0300 
Platform: Bodhi Linux 2.2 x64

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As I've been able to confirm this problem I am marking as:

New (confirmed)
Minor - doesn't prevent high quality work but can slow it down
High - common feature to anchor an object to paragraph - the jump is quite annoying

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Comment 4 Matthias Basler 2014-01-04 10:41:16 UTC
I confirm this (or at least a very similar) effect:

Often if I cut/paste an (embedded) image to a different position in a document using Ctrl+X/V, LO jumps to the last page. In a document with 100+ pages this is more than annoying.

Confirmed on Win7 64 Bit with LO 3.6.7.2. I am marking this as "All Platforms", as it is obviously not restricted to Linux.
Comment 5 Matthias Basler 2014-01-04 10:43:09 UTC
(Also happens with copy/paste, not only cut/paste.)
Comment 6 Joel Madero 2015-05-02 15:43:08 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 sdc.blanco 2015-05-05 21:52:55 UTC
LO 4.4.2.2, WinXP  - no problems with cut/copy and paste frames or with changing the anchor.  But when a paste is "undone" (i.e., Ctrl-Z), then the cursor jumps to the top of the file (as reported in the original bug).
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2018-06-24 02:41:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 sdc.blanco 2018-06-25 14:22:21 UTC
No problems with cut/copy and paste frames or with changing the anchor.  But when a paste is "undone" (i.e., Ctrl-Z), then the cursor jumps to the top of the file (as reported in the original bug).

Version: 5.4.7.2 (x64)
Build ID: c838ef25c16710f8838b1faec480ebba495259d0
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.19; UI render: default; 
Locale: da-DK (da_DK); Calc: group
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2019-06-26 02:45:58 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 sdc.blanco 2019-10-29 23:24:19 UTC
Undoing a copied frame (e.g., with Ctrl-Z) still results in the cursor jumping to the head of the file.  

(No problems with making multiple copies of a frame with Ctrl-V). 

No problems with changing anchors (see comment 1)

Have changed title to better reflect the bug.

Version: 6.3.3.1 (x64)
Build ID: f41f4c7f9507aeca13cb9df51f34d80e8ba30a99
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-US (en_DK); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 12 Timur 2020-02-09 15:58:00 UTC
*** Bug 107482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2022-02-17 03:40:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 QA Administrators 2024-02-18 03:12:41 UTC
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