Why does Ctrl+right arrow skip the last word in a paragraph?
Just ditched Chrome and installed Firefox on Windows 10. Overall great experience with one niggle. When I write an email, Ctrl + right arrow behaves as expected, except at the end of a paragraph when it skips the last word and jumps to the next paragraph. How to resolve this? Safe mode did not fix anything. Thanks.
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jscher2000 said
Phoxuponyou saidI can confirm this happens in the reply box right here. The cursor will correctly move to the start of the last word in a paragraph, but instead of respecting the end-of-paragraph full stop, it will skip to the next paragraph's starting word.
In Word 2010 for example, the cursor stops before the paragraph's last full stop. Even Notepad stops behind the last full stop.On Ctrl+right arrow, Firefox usually skips to the first non-space character after the next space. However, it also skips to the first non-space character after a hyphen or plus sign (+) joining two words.
Firefox and Word seem to work very differently with respect to punctuation: Word stops before periods, commas, question marks, hyphens and plus signs while Firefox does not. Firefox stops just after apostrophes, while Word does not. Each program seems to have a very different definition of the boundary between "words".
Thanks, both. Let's put it down to the vagaries of human nature. It's hardly a deal-breaker. Using Shift + Ctrl + right arrow to select and 'vault over' the last word in a paragraph is a workaround I can live with.
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Hmm, this is in Gmail? I can't replicate that. I tested with my add-ons, and also in Firefox's Safe Mode. I wonder what the difference is? (I run Windows 7)
Yes, in Gmail. But I am using Windows 10.
I figured out how to work around this with minimum pain... just hit Shift as well and select the last word of the paragraph (then go right and back left again with arrows) if you need to place your cursor after the last word of a paragraph without using a mouse.
In pretty much any other text editing situation I have experienced, you can use Ctrl + right arrow to go to the end of a paragraph.
I can confirm this happens in the reply box right here. The cursor will correctly move to the start of the last word in a paragraph, but instead of respecting the end-of-paragraph full stop, it will skip to the next paragraph's starting word.
In Word 2010 for example, the cursor stops before the paragraph's last full stop. Even Notepad stops behind the last full stop.
Maybe Firefox is blind to the formatting?
Are there different mail editing views in Gmail you could try like text-only, HTML/Rich Text, WYSIWYG? Just in case FF could work with one of those.
Good thinking, Phoxuponyou. Unfortunately, killing formatting or switching to plain text doesn't solve the problem. Those are the only options I see in GMail, which is rich text by default.
You could argue that the way FF renders this function is actually more consistent than the norm (but it's less useful). Perhaps this is a misguided design feature? It's not a major headache, truth be told, and I'll take the deal for not having to look at the "unresponsive page" message three times a day in Chrome...
Fair enough; could be worth feedback though! You can leave it here: https://input.mozilla.org/en-GB/feedback/.
Thanks for pointing me to the feedback site. And done!
Phoxuponyou said
I can confirm this happens in the reply box right here. The cursor will correctly move to the start of the last word in a paragraph, but instead of respecting the end-of-paragraph full stop, it will skip to the next paragraph's starting word.
In Word 2010 for example, the cursor stops before the paragraph's last full stop. Even Notepad stops behind the last full stop.
On Ctrl+right arrow, Firefox usually skips to the first non-space character after the next space. However, it also skips to the first non-space character after a hyphen or plus sign (+) joining two words.
Firefox and Word seem to work very differently with respect to punctuation: Word stops before periods, commas, question marks, hyphens and plus signs while Firefox does not. Firefox stops just after apostrophes, while Word does not. Each program seems to have a very different definition of the boundary between "words".
Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
Thanks for clarifying, jscher. There definitely seem to be different practices going around.
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jscher2000 said
Phoxuponyou saidI can confirm this happens in the reply box right here. The cursor will correctly move to the start of the last word in a paragraph, but instead of respecting the end-of-paragraph full stop, it will skip to the next paragraph's starting word.
In Word 2010 for example, the cursor stops before the paragraph's last full stop. Even Notepad stops behind the last full stop.On Ctrl+right arrow, Firefox usually skips to the first non-space character after the next space. However, it also skips to the first non-space character after a hyphen or plus sign (+) joining two words.
Firefox and Word seem to work very differently with respect to punctuation: Word stops before periods, commas, question marks, hyphens and plus signs while Firefox does not. Firefox stops just after apostrophes, while Word does not. Each program seems to have a very different definition of the boundary between "words".
Thanks, both. Let's put it down to the vagaries of human nature. It's hardly a deal-breaker. Using Shift + Ctrl + right arrow to select and 'vault over' the last word in a paragraph is a workaround I can live with.
Modified by JayCHK
cor-el said
See also these prefs:
Thanks. I found these on some other forum before I posted my question but they are already set to 'true' :-(