Holding shiftkey while pressing backspace deletes text unexpectedly #36682

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Joshua Leung · 2013-09-07T14:54:13+02:00

Joshua Leung commented

2013-09-07 14:54:13 +02:00

%%%--- OS ---
Windows (Vista)

- Blender version with error, and version that worked ---

With error: 59761
Without error: 2.66/7 ?

- Short description of error ---

If shift-key is held while pressing backspace within a text field, all text within the text field is cleared.

Expected Behaviour:
Backspace only deletes a single character, even if shift is held.

- Steps for others to reproduce the error (preferably based on attached .blend file) ---

From the looks of things, it was intended that shift-backspace is intended to be a bit of a shortcut for deleting all text in a textfield (while ctrl-backspace deletes up to last space/underscore it seems). Unfortunately, the current behaviour appears to be completely inconsistent with all other textfields/textboxes in every widget toolkit I've ever encountered (Windows, GTK, Qt-Crossplatform, KDE/Qt, Android), and also many common text editors (Notepad++, Geany, Vim, GEdit, etc., as well as others such as Notepad and Wordpad on Windows).

The problem with this shortcut is that if you're currently holding down Shift as you've been entering some uppercase letters or special characters (underscores and symbols mainly), then realise you made a mistake in the previous character and press backspace to get rid of it (keep in mind that shift is still being held, as it seems like too much effort to release, delete 1-char mistake, and repress shift before starting to type again), you've now accidentally deleted all the text, probably without even realising why.
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%%%--- OS --- Windows (Vista) - Blender version with error, and version that worked --- With error: 59761 Without error: 2.66/7 ? - Short description of error --- If shift-key is held while pressing backspace within a text field, all text within the text field is cleared. Expected Behaviour: Backspace only deletes a single character, even if shift is held. - Steps for others to reproduce the error (preferably based on attached .blend file) --- From the looks of things, it was intended that shift-backspace is intended to be a bit of a shortcut for deleting all text in a textfield (while ctrl-backspace deletes up to last space/underscore it seems). Unfortunately, the current behaviour appears to be completely inconsistent with all other textfields/textboxes in every widget toolkit I've ever encountered (Windows, GTK, Qt-Crossplatform, KDE/Qt, Android), and also many common text editors (Notepad++, Geany, Vim, GEdit, etc., as well as others such as Notepad and Wordpad on Windows). The problem with this shortcut is that if you're currently holding down Shift as you've been entering some uppercase letters or special characters (underscores and symbols mainly), then realise you made a mistake in the previous character and press backspace to get rid of it (keep in mind that shift is still being held, as it seems like too much effort to release, delete 1-char mistake, and repress shift before starting to type again), you've now accidentally deleted all the text, probably without even realising why. %%%

Joshua Leung commented

2013-09-07 14:54:13 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Bastien Montagne commented

2013-09-07 17:03:33 +02:00

%%%Actually, SHIFT-backspace is the shortcut to reset any RNA control to its default value… I guess we should deactivate it when text widget is in “edit” mode?%%%

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2013-09-09 16:24:33 +02:00

%%%It's an intentional feature it seems, also exists in 2.49. I've just removed it now, isn't particularly useful.%%%

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2013-09-09 16:24:33 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Resolved'

Brecht Van Lommel closed this issue

2013-09-09 16:24:33 +02:00

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Holding shiftkey while pressing backspace deletes text unexpectedly #36682