Android: cannot delete larger sections

[altenbach]

Typically I quote posts, but delete irrelevant sections. If I do that on Android, I can use the blue handles to select a portion of text and get a popup to cut, copy, etc.

If I select "cut" with a large section selected, only one character gets deleted. I expected the entire selection to disappear.

(Chrome, Android 7.0)

[LiliMcDonald]

Hi Christian,

If you select the delete button, does the text disappear?

Is it possible to provide a video recording of this behavior?

Thanks,

Lili

[altenbach]

No, the text remains. Here is a quick example (I press "cut" on the popup after selection of the text. I am not aware of a "delete" button.)

Note that all it does is delete the question mark, which was not even selected!

[LiliMcDonald]

Thanks for the video. I'm unable to reproduce this on iOS, so it might be Android specific. We'll have to investigate this further.

Here is the button I was referring to:

[altenbach]

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@LiliMcDonald wrote:

Thanks for the video. I'm unable to reproduce this on iOS, so it might be Android specific. We'll have to investigate this further. 

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Yes, the <x] delete button deletes the text, surprise! 😄 Somehow "cut" should do the same thing. 😄 (ctrl+x (=cut) does delete things on the PC)

[LiliMcDonald]

On iOS, "cut" does remove all of the selected text, so I would expect the same functionality on Android as well.

[LiliMcDonald]

This is still under investigation, but I wanted to note that this only seems to be occurring within the Chrome app on Android. In the Internet app, the cut option works as expected.

[altenbach]

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@LiliMcDonald wrote:

In the Internet app, the cut option works as expected.

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What is this? I am running 7.0 (nougat, pure, no vendor skin) and there is no "internet app", just chrome. 

[LiliMcDonald]

It must be a Samsung app.