Issue 115016

Summary:	[sw] difficult to append text to meta(-field)
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	mst.ooo
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	eric.savary, issues
Version:	DEV300m89
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description mst.ooo 2010-10-11 16:50:50 UTC

it is difficult to append text at the end of a meta / meta-field element.

the meta(-field) has a dummy character at the start, making it possible to
position the cursor directly before the meta(-field), or at the very beginning
of the meta(-field).

but at the end there is no dummy character, so the position is ambiguous.

[also it may still be possible for the suffix of a meta-field to suddenly vanish
in unlikely cases, which would be trivial to prevent with a dummy character at
the end]

Comment 1 mst.ooo 2010-10-11 16:55:01 UTC

forgot to mention that adding the dummy character will be a lot of work,
because handling the insertion of a paragraph break within the meta(-field)
must result in both dummy characters being in the _same_ paragraph.
(the meta(-field) must not span paragraphs.)

this requires adapting various Undo and possibly Redlining stuff which will take
a lot of time.

Comment 2 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:18:07 UTC

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".