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Bug introduced in V10.0.0 or earlier and persisting through V12.0

Let's create an example and do the test:

CreateDocument[{},  InputAliases -> {"[" -> 
RowBox[{"\[LeftDoubleBracket]", "\[SelectionPlaceholder]", "\[RightDoubleBracket]"}]}]

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As you can see this is not what I expected. SelectionPlacholder has changed to Placeholder.

OS: Win7

Can you reproduce the problem? It is not only the case of custom aliases but each built-in behaves the same...

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    I get this in v8 Linux too. – Öskå Jul 24 '14 at 09:19
  • @Öskå maybe it was only meant vor v9 ;) it still works there – Kuba Jul 24 '14 at 09:24
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    I get "\[Placeholder]" both in v.8.0.4 and 10.0.0 under Win7 x64. But in v.8.0.4 the placeholder is selected while in v.10.0.0 it is not selected and when I type the text is inserted to the right of the placeholder. – Alexey Popkov Jul 24 '14 at 10:02
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    I was just about to post a similar question regarding the fact that \[SelectionPlaceholder]s generated by input aliases are no longer selected in v10 (Mac OS X 10.9.4) but, for example, if I create an indefinite integral "template" using the typesetting palette button (equivalent to the intt input alias) the first placeholder is selected. – MikeLimaOscar Jul 24 '14 at 10:39
  • On OSX, MMA 10.3, I get a completely empty-appearing notebook, which has a cell with InputAliases->{ "[" -> RowBox[{ "\[LeftDoubleBracket]", "\[SelectionPlaceholder]", "\[RightDoubleBracket]"}]} – Patrick Stevens Oct 18 '15 at 09:36
  • @PatrickStevens I will try to update the code later to it generates proper notebook on Mac too. – Kuba Oct 18 '15 at 09:37
  • Such a simple yet important bug and directive control still couldn't give a developer enough time to fix it. :-( – Mr.Wizard Aug 09 '16 at 20:45
  • @Mr.Wizard The persistence of desktop FE bugs is probably caused by focusing effort on Cloud stuff and marketing. I learned to live with this. Some bugs actually fixed in 11 but not as much as I was expecting :/ – Kuba Aug 09 '16 at 20:56
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    I really hoped that after the function explosion of v10 that v11 would be a stability and performance release. I am starting to think that will never come. – Mr.Wizard Aug 09 '16 at 20:57
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    @Mr.Wizard at least it seems to be the best x.0.0 for a long time. – Kuba Aug 09 '16 at 21:12
  • That's good to hear. I am still on 10.1.0. – Mr.Wizard Aug 09 '16 at 21:14
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    This is the same bugs reported in 54595. – Itai Seggev Jul 15 '17 at 03:55
  • @ItaiSeggev thanks, marked it a duplicate. – Kuba Jul 17 '17 at 19:49

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