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 <n...@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.
