[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125646] calc undo doesn't separate auto-corrupt and user changes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125646

--- Comment #6 from Anthony Youngman <anthony at youngman.org.uk> ---
(In reply to Jacques Guilleron from comment #5)
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> You can edit the cell content and use CTRL+M, to delete the URL formatting
> and get a simple text 

Just tried it - doesn't work!

> or, if you don't want at all URL Recognition, type
> Tools > AutoCorrect Options...
> select Options Tab and uncheck URL Recognition.
> 
And how many people are going to know - or find - that?

There's a reason I consider this a very nasty papercut bug - you should NOT
leave your typical user cursing and swearing because they can't work out how to
stop LO corrupting the text they typed in.

I appreciate actually fixing the bug might be a lot harder than it looks, but
with things as they currently stand, fixing the user's document is a lot harder
than it should be. Much as I hate praising MS Office, it gets it right. It
*ALWAYS* marks the user's changes and auto-correct changes as *SEPARATE* edits
so you can undo one and not the other.

LibreOffice, in *too* *many* places, conflates the changes so the user is
stuffed with a choice of either the pre-edit state, or the post-corruption
state, with no way to get to the desired state of "just give me what I typed,
for fuck's sake!!!"

And no - expecting the user to know esoteric work-arounds like you suggested is
not a good solution.

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