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Type any text, move the caret to the middle of this word and press Ctrl-W key - only preciding part will be deleted but not the whole word. In the help we can find that it should: "Removes the current word or the word preceding the insertion point."
Set target milestone to TBD
this is defect
fixed in [maintrunk] /cvs/editor/libsrc/org/netbeans/editor/ActionFactory.java,v <-- ActionFactory.java new revision: 1.58; previous revision: 1.57
test added Checking in qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditActionsTest.java; /cvs/editor/test/qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditActionsTest.java,v <-- EditActionsTest.java initial revision: 1.1 done RCS file: /cvs/editor/test/qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditorActionsTest.java,v done Checking in qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditorActionsTest.java; /cvs/editor/test/qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditorActionsTest.java,v <-- EditorActionsTest.java initial revision: 1.1 done RCS file: /cvs/editor/test/qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditorActionsTestSuite.java,v done Checking in qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditorActionsTestSuite.java; /cvs/editor/test/qa-functional/src/editor_actions/EditorActionsTestSuite.java,v <-- EditorActionsTestSuite.java initial revision: 1.1
Well, I think that the original behavior was useful as well and should be retained possibly as a separate action. Mato, do you agree?
Yes, already fixed by issue #51813