Bug 126329

Summary: Allow inline editing of URLs in editeng
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) <samuel.mehrbrodt>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: buzea.bogdan, samuel.mehrbrodt, xiscofauli
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98575
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146555
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Bug Blocks: 107733    

Description Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2019-07-10 14:39:59 UTC 
URLs in editeng are fields (while in Writer they are just character attributes).

That means, the cursor can't travel through them as they are represented by a single character internally.

This makes URL editing hard compared to Writer. One has to right click on a link, select "Edit Link" and then update the link text.

Instead it should be possible to directly edit the URL text as any other text (and as it is possible in Writer).

Probably we can't get rid of the field nature the URL currently has (to not break API) but we can surely add inline field editing as we have in Writer for certain fields.
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2019-07-31 09:55:17 UTC 
it seems like a good enhancement