Disabling "smart" cut and paste

[LouisInLA]

I start with the text “alpha beta,” select “beta”, and press CTRL+X. The space after “alpha” should remain, but instead I get “alpha,” (with no space). Why would it remove the space?

Now, without moving my cursor (so that it is still between “alpha” and “,”), I press CTRL+V, and I get “alphabeta ,”. Why in the world would it insert a space before a comma?

Please tell me how to disable this “feature”, because I do a lot of copying and pasting and it is incredibly annoying. I have unchecked all AutoCorrect exceptions, options, localized options, and word completion. I have also unchecked “Word-compatible trailing blanks.” Yet this still occurs.

(This is Writer version 6.2.8.2 on Windows 10)

[EarnestAl]

The effect seems to occur during cut when it removes the extra space between words or between a word and punctuation. The workaround appears to be to cut the space before as well.

You could post it as bug

[anon73440385]

Workaround: Use DEL key.