Re: selected text in cell not high-lighted

[bill lam <cbill lam gmail com>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 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.  

I think that it depends on which (active cell or top edit bar) is
being look at when F2-editing.  If the behavior were similar to that
of Openoffice, someone might file another enhancement request to
switch if he/she always edits inside the top edit bar.  Anyway that is
not a serious problem.

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