Disabling key repeat on delete across table cells

Questions
1

Several students have run into this problem: When erasing the contents of a table cell, they press the delete key too long, and the previous several input cells are wiped out. Can I prevent delete in an empty cell from jumping backward to the previous cell?

Thanks

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There is cellEditable that you can set conditionally. You can’t use anything that continuously checks the cell (circular dependency), but I’ve used a button capture successfully before when giving students feedback. However, it won’t lock until the button is pressed and the answer is correct.
Example, in the table CL:

check1= this.cellNumericValue(1,2)=12
cellEditable(1,2): button1.lastValue(`answer1`)=0

in the button CL:

capture(`answer1`): when table1.script.check1 1 otherwise 0

something like this will not work:

cellEditable(3,2): isBlank(this.cellContent(3,2))
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That’s very frustrating! We’ve ticketed the bug and should hopefully get a fix up soon.

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Great! I’ve seen that happen to my students a few times as well. They get pretty frustrated (understandably so).