This is really annoying because all of Roblox’s, including Studio and chat, user interface uses this object for text input, and this non-standard behavior makes my typing experience very slow.
Repro:
Hold backspace
type a character
Note that the character does not get written
Case where this comes up organically:
Typing something, and you make a mistake. You backspace over the mistake and resume typing while your finger is still barely on the backspace key. It eats your first input and this sucks.
I can confirm that this is happening to me as well after I hold backspace. A solution is to simply press the backspace key once normally, which will reset the input. However, as a bug, this is still quite annoying to deal with.
I just attempted to reproduce this and was unable to.
Are you holding the backspace while attempting to type? If this is the case it’s not a bug you just need to release your finger off of the backspace key and continue your keystrokes. However, if you’re saying that you hold the backspace then release it and then type something out and the characters to not respond accordingly then that may be a bug. I attempted to reproduce both of these scenarios and was only able to reproduce the one that was expected (holding down the backspace and typing asynchronously).
Read @Quenty’s reply to this for the correction.
If possible create a Roblox place file and video to show the problem.
This would presumably be because the backspace eats the characters that are typed so quickly so don’t see the appear - hence, it isn’t really a bug exactly. A ‘fix’ would likely involve the entire system to typing computers use being remade, which is probably more trouble than it’s worth see posts 6 & 7
I can confirm this.
When I hold backspace and write any character, backspace will stop erasing and pressing letter keys does nothing, even before auto-repeat kicks in. Letters will continue to appear after Backspace is released.
When I do the same in Notepad++, backspace will stop erasing as it does in Roblox, but I can still write.
When I hold backspace without typing anything else, it clears everything as expected.
Unfortunately, this behavior is wrong, and unexpected. Try this in ANY other piece of software, including Chrome, Word, Sublime Text, VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++, Word, Discord, and even Roblox Studio’s script editor.
You can type while holding down backspace. Roblox should respect UX norms.
I am in the process of checking over bug reports and following up on some bugs that haven’t received any activity in a while.
Is this issue still occurring or can you confirm that this bug has been resolved? We are having a hard time reproducing this issue.
I am happy to let you know that this bug should be fixed! Please let us know if you run into any more issues with it. 