[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 #11 from Anthony Youngman <anthony at youngman.org.uk> ---

> 
> You said that Calc uses the EditEngine, so I guess this applies to other
> edits as well as emails and urls? So what happens when auto-corrupt actually
> CHANGES

Whoops ...

So what happens when auto-corrupt actually CHANGES what the user typed? I've
hit this problem in several different places over the years, and the first time
I hit it, it did EXACTLY THAT.

And when everyone told me where to go to turn auto-formatting off THEY GOT IT
WRONG.

I know I can be a bit of "an angry old man" at times, but look at the
frustration expressed in the penultimate paragraph of comment #5.

And ask yourself - "do any of these autoformat operations CHANGE THE USER
TEXT". Well, of course they do, but in my experience it's not only *appearance*
that changes, but also sometimes the *meaning* - it's too long ago to remember
but that example I mentioned above did exactly that!

There's a reason I collectively call that stuff "auto-corrupt". You should NOT
be changing the user's text, without giving them an easy way to change it back
to what they actually typed! Can you really tell me that none of those auto-
functions actually change the *text* and *meaning* of what the user typed?
Because I know I've met at least one!

I know it's a paper-cut bug. But as papercuts go this is a chainsaw ... :-)

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