Re: selected text in cell not high-lighted

[bill lam <cbill lam gmail com>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 15:01 +0800, bill lam a écrit :
> > When editing context of a cell, the part of text selected are not
> > high-lighted (but that appeared in the top edit bar are correctly
> > high-lighted).  The problem happens both in light-on-dark and
> > dark-on-light theme.
> As far as I know, this has never been implemented. Please, file an
> enhancement request at bugzilla.gnome.org.

I reported but it is a duplicate of enhancement request in 2003
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122176

On reading its comment, I still wonder why it had not be honored.
When I navigate to a cell and press F2 to start editing, I do not
habitually turn my head upwards to look at the top bar. IMO
openoffice make more sense in this aspect.  

Just my two cents and ymmv.

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