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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Qt bidi alignment (was Re: KMail bug - editing emails)
From:       Hamish Rodda <meddie () yoyo ! cc ! monash ! edu ! au>
Date:       2001-12-28 13:32:19
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I saw this a while back, and a recent compile hasn't changed anything, so I 
guess it's not just me.  This isn't specific to kmail - many single and 
multi-line text editors are susceptible to this*. Pressing the right control 
and shift buttons (left don't produce the same bug) at the same time (arrow 
keys not required, though they are the most common combination, used to 
select a word at a time) causes text to get right-aligned, and the cursor to 
have added a small arrow pointing left at the top. Punctuation is reversed, 
which leads me to believe that right control + shift is acting as a shortcut 
for "switch this line/paragraph to right-to-left orientation".

Pressing left control+shift again reverts the alignment, which further leads 
me to believe that this could even be a feature.

I'm not sure what should be done if this is indeed a feature... perhaps 
customisable shortcuts, and a more obscure default?

Hamish

* I have seen it in kmail, konqueror, & ksirc so far...

>On Friday 28 December 2001 11:42, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
>> When I was editing an email in KMail (HEAD-Branch, 1 or 2 days old) I found
>> a nasty bug:
>>
>> Pulling down Ctrl + Shift +  <-- or -->  indents the current line and you
>> can't remove the indention by pressing Backspace.
>
>What keys do you mean here? The arrow keys?
>This nicely selects the last or next word here.
>
>Are you using qt-copy as recommended or Qt-3.0.1 ?
>
>Regards,
>Michael Häckel


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