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  • Text selection and cursor position rendered wrong if input contains "bad" text [Mojave]

  • BugsDesktopPlanned

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a new issue here
  2. Type something that looks like a domain name inside parenthesis, close the parenthesis, and then type some more text. Make sure all of the text fits on a single line. Something like this:

Test is some text. (This contains something.lookslikea.domain) Here is some more text.

  1. Click the text after the parenthesis to move the insertion point
  2. Try typing more text
  3. Note that the text appears in the wrong place

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Version 0.99.124.1-beta (WebKit 616.1.10)
macOS 10.14.6

edit: I just observed this same bug in a text field on another website. So this should probably be recatorgized as a general Orion bug.

  • Vlad replied to this.

    Video attached. Note where I'm clicking vs. where text appears.

    • Vlad replied to this.

      bribri Thanks. This is an issue related to Mojave and character not typing where the cursor was clicked. I think we have an issue already for that and I'd appreciate if you could find it so that I can merge.

          Merged 6 posts from Putting periods inside of parenthesis messes up text entry in feedback forum.
            4 months later

            bribri Looks like this issue:

            Ooops, this link is circular?

            In any case, this issue is the biggest showstopper for me. I write a lot in forums, which often contain specific formatting characters such as []% or non-ASCII unicode characters, and this bug makes writing almost impossible.

            In fact, the mere quotation of []% triggers the issue in this very editor area.

              When selecting text in text boxes (including on this very site), the cursor/selection is often misaligned, frequently by several characters in a large text block. This makes it unusable for editing posts on a Wordpress site, for example.

              Orion, OS version; hardware type:
              0.99.125, 10.14.6, 2019 iMac 21"

                Vlad changed the title to Text Selections Misaligned [Mojave] .
                  5 days later
                  a year later
                  Merged 7 posts from Text Selections Misaligned [Mojave].
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