This may be a tricky one to track down, which I apologise for, but it’s been bugging me, and maybe other people too!
When writing a reply (but, I’ve just discovered, not a new post), if you press ctrl+backspace to delete the last word written, the cursor shows the space before the deleted word as still being there, however if I start typing, it turns out the space isn’t there, and the two words get pushed together. This happens both in the quick reply and the full reply mode.
I’d prefer it to be like most other pieces of software and leave the space when you delete a word, however I wouldn’t mind too much if it deleted the space as well, as long as the cursor was displayed in the correct position!
I hope I’ve explained that well enough - if not, let me know and I’d be happy to clarify!
No need for clarification! I know exactly what you mean, and it bugs me as well. But it’s just one more thing that’s wrong with the abomination of a piece of software that’s been chosen to power this forum, and apparently there’s no possibility of changing it for something better, so unfortunately we’re stuck with it.
At least, by the looks of things, you can get paragraph breaks into your posts - that’s something to be grateful for, many forum contributors aren’t even able to do that.
Realise you've messed and want to get rid of the last word (or 2) So you press Ctrl + Backspace to delete an entire word (I'll do it twice to delete the last 2 words), and re-type the next word without changing anything else;
I think that the best thing would be to get the wheel alignment...
But what you get is;
I think that the best thing would beto get the wheel alignment
Which, as you may note, is not what I get!
What browser are you using (I’d guess Firefox 3?)?
That’s almost right, however it’s slightly more subtle than that. I could cope with it being like that!
What it actually does is delete the two words, but still shows the space (with the | representing the cursor):
“one two three four five|”, press ctrl backspace twice “one two three |” type “four” again “one two threefour|”, so it shows the space, but when I type, the space isn’t there.
I’ve just done a little more testing and it only seems to happen at the end of lines.
As for the browser, sorry, I meant to put that in! I’m using Firefox 3, you’re right. Running under Ubuntu 8.10, although I doubt the OS makes much difference. I’m very happy to do any more tests you want to help you sort this, just let me know!
It might be caused by the interaction of this forum and Firefox, but it’s certainly not a general Firefox “feature” - I don’t have the same problem in Gmail, for example, or any other web site.
Thanks for taking a look into though.
Oooh… It seems to be fixed now, actually! Whatever you did clearly worked! Thanks. [:)]
Perhaps Martin or the developers did - I did a quick search when you first posted, and there were some issues with it in Gmail at one point (later sorted), which made me think it was Firefox.
It also does it for me when just using thebackspace button.
In fact, there it is in the sentence above.
Firefox 3.05 Win XP
Doesn’t always happen, only when I delete a whole word using backspace (and then not every time)
Yes, when pressing repeatedly (I only press and hold to delete multiple words).
But, it doesn’t happen all the time.
When it happens, it usually appears to have two spaces after the preceeding word. Deleting the one space leaves a space; but on typing, the space is removed and the two words are joined.
Not the end of the world or anything, just another little niggle.
Hopefully we can update the content editor - I’ll look in to our options with it. The new one works with Safari & Chrome, so even if it doesn’t sort that, it’s not effort wasted.
I think I might have worked it out. Click into a sentence to edit a word click back and it often does it.
So I type this sentence without a space on the end click into the sentence and edit it and it is OK.
So I type this sentence with a space on the endclick back, edit and look what happens.
Though it doesn’t happen all of the time, just now and again.
I often get two spaces on the end, delete one of them and then when I press space at the end of the word the preceeding space dissappears.
What has started happening
though, which is significantly worse, is that when I press return to
start a new paragraph (in both quick reply and, uh, slow reply) the background page (on quick reply, the whole page on normal reply) scrolls up as if I’d pressed page up, the new paragraph is inserted as it should be and the cursor jumps back to the start of my message.
(Oh, when I did that, I got the page up, but not the cursor jump - maybe that’s only in the quick reply)
As I’m sure you can imagine, that makes typing any kind of long message quite annoying - especially one with lots of new lines like the “cars I’ve driven” thread… It’s another weird one though, I hope you can sort it out!
As before, I’m using Firefox 3 in Ubuntu 8.10. Oh, and I’ve got a Greasemonkey script which adjusts the forum width. I should probably turn that off and make sure it’s not the culprit!