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From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Bug: Deleting region in table [9.0.8 (9.0.8-dist @
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:21:41 +1200
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To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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Hi Nicholas,

I see the fix for this bug (commit
91c68865c644277772028faca96b7ff03541e7cf) was merged for org 9.0.10.

However, I installed 9.0.10 this morning and the bug still occurs.

Apologies if I am missing something. 

With thanks,
Nick H

On Thu, Aug 17 2017, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz> writes:
>
>> Deleting a region within an org table causes point to jump.
>>
>> Recipe:
>>
>>   Emacs -Q
>>   org-mode
>>
>>   ;make a table
>>   | this is a simple | table |
>>
>>   double-click "simple" ;place region over a word
>>   <backspace>
>>
>> With the last command, I expect the word "simple" to be deleted, the
>> right-hand "|" separator (and following column) to close up six chars,
>> and point to end up to the right of "a ".
>>
>> Note however that point winds up in the middle of the next column over
>> the word "table". Or, more precisely, one screen column to the left of
>> where it started. An additional space is also inserted in the first
>> column.
>>
>> I had a look at org.el and I think this occurs because the function
>> `org-delete-backward-char' (which my system calls by default to delete
>> text in a table) is unaware of the region and treats the case above as a
>> single char backwards delete.
>
> Good catch!
>
> Fixed. Thank you for the report and the analysis.