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Authored by loh.tar on Mar 15 2019, 2:03 PM.

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  • Avoid bad selection in some case of undo in block mode
  • Don't try to expand selection in block mode when cursor is in col 0 on backspace
  • Improve/fix documentation
  • Code cosmetic

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loh.tar created this revision.Mar 15 2019, 2:03 PM
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loh.tar requested review of this revision.Mar 15 2019, 2:03 PM

This patch is the byproduct of some playing with RTL text, Bug 385694.
But a sane solution may need some more effort, so I tend to not offer my current state of that playing.

Wow! Great :)
Thanks for looking into this, but I'm afraid that the problem isn't with backspace/del, but with the cursor positioning, at least for RTL and mixed text.
I actually found this to be a problem in Qt after trying to solve it myself in KTextEditor: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-65508
Not sure what's the root of the problem :(

I had recently submit a patch which was also affected by RTL text D19621. Should this patch here be accepted I can upload my current state of the mentioned playing, which works similar as that D19621. It's for me very frustrating to test because I never know what is to be expect or what currently happens. Your Qt report make it even worse.

Probably can we not much do for a perfect solution as long Qt has some serious problem as your Qt bug report says.

BTW I noticed that typing a bracket in RTL text these is shown mirrored, very confusing too.

I'm afraid that the problem isn't with backspace/del, but with the cursor positioning

hm, currently is by backspace something to the right removed and by del to the left. So I think that's wrong and my patch fix that at least for backspace...in most cases IIRC. Then I stopped my playing.

cullmann accepted this revision.May 26 2019, 10:38 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 26 2019, 10:38 AM
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cullmann reopened this revision.May 28 2019, 12:22 PM

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408016

Guess this needs a revert, + some tests for that cases + a fix, thanks ;=)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 28 2019, 12:22 PM

That may fix it.

diff --git a/src/document/katedocument.cpp b/src/document/katedocument.cpp
index e365c380..7c24f67f 100644
--- a/src/document/katedocument.cpp
+++ b/src/document/katedocument.cpp
@@ -3350,7 +3350,9 @@ void KTextEditor::DocumentPrivate::backspace(KTextEditor::ViewPrivate *view, con
 
     } else {
         // col == 0: wrap to previous line
-        if (line > 0) {
+        const Kate::TextLine textLine = m_buffer->plainLine(line - 1);
+
+        if (line > 0 && textLine) {
             if (config()->wordWrap() && textLine->endsWith(QLatin1String(" "))) {
                 // gg: in hard wordwrap mode, backspace must also eat the trailing space
                 removeText(KTextEditor::Range(line - 1, textLine->length() - 1, line, 0));

I ATM have no access to my compile env. here, please commit the fix.
It would be best to have some test for this, too, for future reference.

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