I noticed that from yesterday when I type the answer and get it wrong first time (typo or completely wrong), my whole answer is fully erased by only one click on delete button in my phone. I saw this in Chrome too.
Previously when I did typo I just fix it by clicking before the letter with typo and removed one letter but now the whole word is erased if “delete” is used.
I am on Android, pixel 6. My partner is also on same model but it works for him.
Am I in some a/b test? It is really time consuming to re-type the whole answer for typos.
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It seems that when I closed the application and opened it again, I no longer have this problem.
I will leave this topic open if someone has the same the solution is just close the application and open again.
It keeps happening for me.
When I need to delete from the end of the world that I input, “delete” removes entire word instead of the last character. This is really inconvenient. Please help to somehow make this post visible as bug report.
Hey! Is this in the app or on the website?
It is on the app. My steps are:
- Input answer with mistake, click →
Result: System will show all red - Click in the end to put cursor in the end and click one time “delete”
Result:
Whole word is gone
Step 1:
Step 2:
After submitting an answer and getting it marked wrong, the backspace button or undo button will completely undo your answer and let you try a new answer. This will ignore the wrong answer completely. Removing the whole input it the intended behavior because it is resetting the question back to the start basically.
If you get it wrong, it is best to just hit enter again (assuming it wasn’t just a typo) and then try again when it comes up later in the review session.
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Thanks for the answer, I understand the intention behind it, but initially I spotted it while making typos or leaving words in “present” instead of “past” like in this example with typo in the end:
It happens when I try to speed up and just type with little thinking. I still wish it would not erase the whole word in case of typo in the end.
In my example I need to fix wrong nominal to -te form but current behavior will remove the whole word.
I found a workaround for it because I don’t want to mark such cases as mistake because I remembered the word.
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Yeah this is working as intended by the sounds of it.
We’ve had people suggest the interaction work like you’ve suggested, so you’re not the only one!
Thank you very much everyone for your answers and suggestions.
I no longer think it is a bug but just some option to improve and good learning for me how things work.
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