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When using Backspace or Delete while the preëdit is open, currently these keys do nothing when the end of the preëdit is reached. I.e., when the cursor is already at the leftmost position in the preëdit, typing Backspace does nothing, otherwise it deletes the character left of the cursor. And when the cursor is already at the rightmost position in the preëdit, typing Delete does nothing, otherwise it deletes the character to the right of the cursor. This is especially inconvenient when using ibus-typing-booster in a program which supports surrounding text, for example when using it in gedit.
Created attachment 1239028 [details] ibus-typing-booster-backspace-and-delete-problem-first.png
Created attachment 1239029 [details] ibus-typing-booster-backspace-and-delete-problem-second.png
The screenshots ibus-typing-booster-backspace-and-delete-problem-first.png and ibus-typing-booster-backspace-and-delete-problem-second.png demonstrate the problem. The user has typed “I can not ” and then recognizes that “cannot” should be spelled as one word and wants to fix that. So the user moves the cursor back with the arrow left key. As soon as the cursor is behind the “t” of the word “not”, the preëdit is reopened and “not” is placed into the preëdit. One can see that because “not” is then underlined. Now the cursor is moved further left with the arrow left key until the cursor is left of the “n”. Typing Backspace now trying to delete the space between “can” and “not” achieves nothing, Backspace just does nothing at the end of the preëdit currently. So one can try to use the arrow left key one more time to get out of the preëdit. But when doing that, the preëdit is committed and the cursor is moved left (which is intuitive and logical). That makes the cursor end up behind the “n” of the word “can” and reopens the preëdit again, putting “can” into the preëdit. ”can” is now underlined. Again one cannot remove the space between “can” and “not” by typing Delete because Delete currently does nothing at the end of the preëdit. That behaviour makes it quite hard to delete spaces between words. As a workaround, one can do that by positioning the cursor using the mouse, not with the arrow keys and then use Backspace or Delete. Or, switch off ibus-typing-booster temporarily, delete the space and switch ibus-typing-booster on again. This is annoying. So the behaviour of Backspace and Delete should be improved at the ends of the preëdit. When at the left side of a preëdit, Backspace should commit and send a Backspace to the application. I.e. when the cursor is left of the “not” in “can not”, the “not” should be committed and a Backspace should be sent to the application which deletes the space, giving us “cannot”.
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.16-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-bc5be68804
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.16-1.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-c2b4c1b068
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.16-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-c2b4c1b068
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.16-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-bc5be68804
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.16-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.17-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-055b6ced50
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.17-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-055b6ced50
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.18-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-003627ba96
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.18-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-003627ba96
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.19-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-dbf2db3cfa
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.19-2.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-803b903185
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.19-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-803b903185
ibus-typing-booster-1.5.19-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.