Re: selected text in cell not high-lighted

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 22:28 +0800, bill lam wrote:
> 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.

What do you mean with "had not be honored"?

It was not closed as WONTFIX. Feel free to provide a patch. I guess none
of the active developers thought it was important enough to stand out
among the other 200 pending enhancement requests and 200 open bug
reports. 

> 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.  

Andreas