Cannot move backwards in Books while writing / Cannot copy anything from the book

Maybe because books essentially are like signs: they both produce text for use in-game and hence books use the same text input mechanic, but as for the cursor issue I have no idea.

If you mean that books do not have copy paste support, it must be an internal problem because books DO have copy paste support.

I don't think it's a bug, more of a technical limitation 😛

what do you mean?

It would be cool if that was fixed. If this gets added, Mojang could add it for signs too 😃

There's no technical limitation, because the chat buffer has decent line editing support. I'd love to see books brought up to parity with that.

I also can not move the cursor left of current position. (can't try right of current position for the obvious reason that I can't move left.)
The up nor down arrow keys work for line editing either.

Although I had no problem copying in text to the written book, during the signing process I could not paste any text to the title of the book.

More of a feature request, might be added but its a pain in the ass to do all the multiline selection stuff by hand (which also happens to be the reason its not in there atm).

okay we understand. 1.6/1.7/1.8 stuff perhaps?

It's an easy fix, it must be. I'm sure it was just overlooked since most people don't bother with notebooks. I use one notebook in almost every world for coordinates of natural formations, villages, temples and all that, I also use notebooks for checklists (which currently is a pain because of this bug/missing feature) and most importantly main goals, like collecting an amount of xp for my planned enchant.

This would be extremely useful. You could copy paste book content for guides / books you want to reproduce, and would allow you to publish them in lue of the lack of printing press / copy mechanic. It would also very handy to be able to move the courser

The behavior of published / signed books should NOT be changed, so people can;t copy form them. What we really need is a way to copy books like we can maps

Anyways, I'd support a bit more work going into writable books

Confirmed.

@Corgano: You can already copy books. Just put some book and quills with the written book you want to copy.

IT must have been the version of mine craft I was on, in 1.7 you can copy them 😃

Writing in books / signs could still use some work though

What I think the "issue" is is the fact that the way how the book is written is still the same as the signs, and you can't, and shouldn't, be able to edit much on a sign, since it has only four lines.
What I think would improve the writing a lot is if you could do things like: "Pressing Ctrl+A will select the whole page." or "Pressing Ctrl and the Left/Right Arrow will select everything the cursor passes though." because this happens with commands, and it's really handy.

It would be better to make book editing on one contiguous page, so inserting or deleting something on one page doesn't take effort on the following pages.

Sorry mods for not having updated this post for the last couple of months myself. But I got really tired of updating a bug that is obviously never going to be fixed. I mean. quote: "upvote bugs you find important, they will receive a higher priority". Yet some bugs have been around for over two years with 600 upvotes. So yeah, that's why, sorry again.

Is this a bug? I certainly am not a fan of this, but I don't think it's a bug. However, it should be changed regardless.

Update 1.8: Pasting something in the book works now

Reproduced in 1.8.7 (and known to occur all versions in between, but not personally tested).

Affects 15w45a.

Affects 15w46a.

Affects 15w49a.

Affects 15w50a.

Affects 15w51b.

Affects 16w02a.

Confirmed for 16w03a.

Affects 16w04a.

Affects 16w05b.

Affects 16w06a.

Affects 16w07a.

Affects 16w07b.

Confirmed for 1.9-pre1

I support the ability to navigate backwards/moving the write marker freely in books. And I want to quote:
"[Mojang] Grum (Erik Broes) added a comment - 09/Feb/13 1:33 PM:
More of a feature request, might be added but its a pain in the ass to do all the multiline selection stuff by hand (which also happens to be the reason its not in there atm)"

It's 19/Feb/16, and top 6 voted issue. Come on...

Affects 1.9-pre3.

Affects 1.9-pre4.

Affects 1.9

Confirmed for 1.9.1-pre3.

Affects 1.9.2.

I don't think it's a bug, but I still think they should change it

Confirmed for 1.9.3-pre3.

Confirmed for 1.9.4.

Confirmed for 16w20a.

Confirmed for 16w21a.

Confirmed for 16w21b.

Confirmed for 1.10-pre1.

Confirmed for 1.10-pre2.

Confirmed for 1.10.

Confirmed for 1.10.1.

Confirmed in 16w38a

Confirmed in 16w39a

Confirmed in 16w39b

Confirmed in 16w39c

Confirmed in 16w40a

Confirmed in 16w41a

Confirmed in 16w42a

Confirmed in 16w43a

Confirmed in 1.11-pre1

Confirmed in 1.11

@@unknown:

This bug tracker is for issues with vanilla (unmodified/base) Minecraft. You're using some mods. Contact the developers of the mods you're using (it looks like you want the IC2/Industrial Craft developers based off of that crash report) as only they will be able to fix the issue.

Beyond that, I don't think that crash has anything to deal with this specific issue.

Confirmed in 16w50a

Still affects 18w05a, please update!

Confirmed in 18w07a

Confirmed for 18w09a.

Confirmed for 18w16a, and it seems it's going to be fixed! Thanks, mysterious new bug-fixing @unknown!

When an issue is assigned, that doesn't mean it's going to be fixed tomorrow, soon or at all. It just says that if anyone does, it will likely be that person.

nice, always wanted to be mysterious. yes, i'm working on it 😛

Confirmed for 1.13-pre3

Affects 1.13-pre6

Affects 1.13.1

Still affecting 18w43a - text in signs cannot be scrolled through.

I think it's probably better to create a separate clone ticket for signs, since signs are relatively trivial in comparison to books but it is separate code.

Yes, please create a separate ticket for signs.

Ticket for signs is now MC-138003.