[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116687] New: Multiple Selection "hangs" after Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116687

            Bug ID: 116687
           Summary: Multiple Selection "hangs" after Ctrl+Left or
                    Ctrl+Right
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 4.1.0.4 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: gerhard.weydt at t-online.de

Created attachment 140945
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=140945&action=edit
Hardcopy of a sixfold re-selection

In Writer select two not contiguous text portions, using Ctrl for the second
selection (for a contiguous selection there is a similar effect, but it's more
difficult to describe). Then use Ctrl+Right or Ctrl+Left. Then, as it should
be, the cursor jumps to the start of the next word or to the previous one. But
the selection is not cancelled, it remains and will only vanish if you close
the document. Thus it seems that only the surface representation is affected.
This is confirmed by the fact that if you create a selection elsewhere and
change the attributes, then only this new selection is affected. The object
CurrentSelection also shows only the new selection or simply the cursor
position.
It seems that pressing Ctrl is the signal for retaining the selection, even
though the combination Ctrl+Right or ...Left does something completely
different.
As someone pointed out to me, you can even cumulate the effect by again and
again selecting parts of the same primary selection; I enclose a hardcopy of a
sixfold selection, resulting in an ever deeper blue colour.
I could reproduce this in Windows 10 for many LibO versions since 4.1.0.2.0. In
versions  3.5.0rc3 and older and in OpenOffice this does not happen. For the
intermittent versions I cannot say anything, as I had technical problems
installing them.
This behaviour has been reproduced twice by other people for different Linux
installations and different LibO versions, too.

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