<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Pressing ctrl+shift switches direction on key down" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103158#c15">Comment # 15</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Pressing ctrl+shift switches direction on key down" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103158">bug 103158</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il" title="Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>"> Nadav Har'El</a> <pre>The fact that this bug has been open for half a year although it is already understood what causes it leads me to conclude that the people involved underestimate its severity or believe it bothers only few people. As an RTL user, let me tell you that this is a very serious issue, because it causes paragraphs' directions to spontaneously flip on the mere press of the "control" key, as explained previously in comments here, and in the duplicate I created, <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - RTL paragraphs spontaneously become LTR" href="show_bug.cgi?id=107284">bug 107284</a>. The effect is very subtle - you edit a long document, and suddenly the direction of one of the paragraph "flips". For a long paragraph, often the only change visible is the alignment of the paragraph's last line, which you can sometimes miss and only notice later. Moreover, it's not clear *why* this happened. I've seen this problem dozens of times over the last few months, and even added a shortcut for "correcting" it (making a paragraph RTL again), before I figured out what (the "control" key) can actually trigger this problem. I'm guessing that 99% of the RTL users (Hebrew and Arabic writers) have come across this problem in recent months, without being able to explain it, and certainly not figuring out that *this* issue is about the same problem. So it's not surprising we don't see a hundreds voters or duplicates on this issue. But it's still extremely annoying. It's *not* a feature - it's a bug. Nobody wants a "feature" which flips a paragraph direction on the press of a key. Flipping a paragraph's direction is very rarely a useful operation - and doing it with just the "control" key (just because previously you also pressed, somehow, shift, in an unrelated operation) is absurd.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>