Bug 82718 - Ranged comments in Writer silently break when deleting from the beginning of the string
Summary: Ranged comments in Writer silently break when deleting from the beginning of ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.2.6.2 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium major
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2014-08-17 01:48 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-07-28 20:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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screencast no1 (2.60 MB, video/webm)
2014-08-17 01:49 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
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screencast no2 (900.99 KB, video/webm)
2014-08-17 01:49 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
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sample document (10.34 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2014-08-17 01:51 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
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sample broken resulting document (9.96 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2014-08-17 01:51 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:48:27 UTC
This is really tricky to explain so I'm attaching screencasts, but basically if you press the Delete key in front of the first character of a ranged comment, it will silently delete the comment but not show you that it did in the UI, until you reopen the saved document and find a "phantom" comment. Pretty big deal as it is unexpected data loss.

It should either clearly delete the comment immediately (and thus allow me to undo that) or not ever delete the comment, just convert it to a non-ranged comment (which in turn can be deleted if you really want to).
Comment 1 Jeff Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:49:21 UTC
Created attachment 104744 [details]
screencast no1
Comment 2 Jeff Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:49:58 UTC
Created attachment 104745 [details]
screencast no2
Comment 3 Jeff Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:51:02 UTC
Created attachment 104746 [details]
sample document
Comment 4 Jeff Fortin Tam 2014-08-17 01:51:20 UTC
Created attachment 104747 [details]
sample broken resulting document
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2014-11-12 10:41:16 UTC
I can't reproduce "le bork" on Win 7 or Ubuntu. Even the attached supposedly broken document has the comments preserved!
Note: contrary to the screencast, if I press left arrow twice at the "i" of ipsum, I go to Lorem and do not stay put.

Can you test with 4.3.x and report here? If it works ok, change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
Build ID: b021b5983c62e266b82d9f0c5c6d8d8900553827
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-12_00:19:18

Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
Build ID: 1c526c9ddda5d52f7a4db5655a4ec60b8c62835c
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF-dbg, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-11_23:20:41
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2015-06-08 14:29:15 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

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Comment 7 QA Administrators 2015-07-18 17:27:48 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INVALID due to inactivity and a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest your bug against the latest release. If the issue is still present in the latest stable release, we need the following information (please ignore any that you've already provided):

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Message generated on: 2015-07-18
Comment 8 Jeff Fortin Tam 2015-07-28 20:12:51 UTC
Well, that's annoying... It all works flawlessly in 4.4.4, indeed!