Re: [libreoffice-users] a weird problem of text loss

On 04/08/2025 16:58, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> This may not be helpful, but I have had similar experiences when typing on a laptop with a 
> trackpad. Sometimes, if I'm typing fast, my thumb will inadvertently touch the trackpad, which will 
> serve as a mouse click on whatever the cursor happens to be hovering over at the time. I have, on 
> occasion, quite accidentally deleted words and lines of text with my inadvertent thumb brushes. I 
> have learned to be careful to put the mouse cursor in a harmless location while typing.
>
> But, when that happens, I quickly hit undo and the text returns. You have already tried that and it 
> hasn't worked, so as I say, it may not be helpful.
>
> Virgil

Thanks for the comment. I'd understand better what happened if the 
undo/redo history hadn't been empty. I can of course reproduce 
"accidentally" typing ^A instead of shift-A, and ^S instead of Shift-S - 
which would leave just the text typed in-between both in the on-disk 
file and on-screen. But in that case undo/redo are available, or at 
least they are when I try this. OTOH both were very definitely greyed 
out in my wife's case, and that I cannot reproduce without closing the 
file completely and re-opening it.

Very strange.

--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England


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