Undo auto-space insertion when entering special characters

Bug #1505421 reported by Johannes Kempf
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-keyboard
Triaged
Medium
Michael Sheldon
ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

A space is added by default while choosing a word from the word-ribbon when auto-suggestion and auto-correction enabled. If the next typed character is a punctuation mark the unnecessary space is removed automatically. For other special characters the space will remain: e.g. at-symbol @, dash -, or underscore _.

This is very annoying when you're typing email addresses.
As it is very uncommon to start a word with these characters it would be better to remove the automatically inserted space.

Remark: Please do not treat them like punctuation marks in every circumstances. Auto-suggestion inserts a matching word when choosing a punctuation mark while typing a word. This isn't done for other special characters. Here is the current behavior very useful.

Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in ubuntu-keyboard:
assignee: nobody → Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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