Automatically deleting spaces around selection

[captainping]

Having used Word for about 30 years, I've become used to this feature: If you select a word by double-clicking, then hit the delete key, Word deletes the word and also the space(s) that follow it. This makes it easy to quickly edit. You don't have to follow deleting words with making sure that there are no straggler spaces left behind. This is pretty standard text-editing behavior. THIS FORUM WEBSITE, for example, does it.

TextMaker doesn't seem to do this. Is there a Preference to make it do so?

If not, can this feature be added, perhaps as a Preference?

Thanks!

[Jossi]

Did you check Tools > Options, tab "Edit", "Add or remove spaces when pasting"?

[captainping]

This option was already checked.

I've done some more investigation. It's true that SOMETIMES the space after the word is deleted sometimes not. I haven't been able to nail down when these cases happen, but I have created a .docx file the demonstrates this, and it is attached.

Open the file, double-click the word, "editing" and hit the delete key. The trailing space is deleted along with the word.

Double click the word, "goo" and then hit the delete key. The trailing space is NOT deleted.

Thanks!

[Jossi]

Confirmed.
I think I have found the reason: to decide what is to be considered as a word, TextMaker uses its internal dictionary. With known words, removal of spaces works as expected, with unknown words it doesn't.

[captainping]

If it is true that TextMaker only deletes trailing whitespace if a word is in its dictionary:
This is really non-standard behavior and should be changed! Imagine if the document were a scientific paper using new terms or acronyms. It would be really wrong to treat these words differently than other words. Even more so if a programmer (like me) were to use TextMaker.

If not:
Please tell us what is going on, and/or fix the bug.

Thanks,
Christopher

[SuperTech]

Thanks for reporting this problem. I tried to reproduce this problem as you mentioned, but I didn't find any problem. Please check this screen recording of your file for your reference.

Please make sure you checked the option “Add or remove spaces when pasting” in File | Options | Edit.

[Jossi]

This is funny, as I can reproduce captainping's problem:

And of course “Add or remove spaces when pasting” is set.