Hello, I fell upon this bug and can confirm that Gedit misbehaves when dealing with a lot of spaces in a text file. I tested with the provided file the following way. When treating this string: 'CREATE TABLE people( <240 spaces here> id<newline>...'
the text is displayed in the following manner CREATE TABLE people (<240 spaces here>id<newline> ... When the cursor is placed between the 'e' in 'people' and the bracket, when one hits backspace the line is not moved upwards, but the 'e' is deleted. In fact the line is never moved up one when the <neline> char is deleted. I think this is kind of weird behaviour. Can someone confirm that this is not a normal behaviour. If yes, how should gedit behave? IMHO the line should be moved up one line when between 'e' in 'people' and the bracket and when one hits backspace. HTH -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505765 Title: gedit problem with long lines Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Confirmed Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Triaged Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Hi, I was editing a text file when the cursor began to behave strangely. The file contained these lines: CREATE TABLE people( integer primary key, name varchar(50), age integer ) When I put the cursor after the 'l' in 'people', the arrow key would not move the cursor to the right. Instead it jumped to the next line. Similarly, I could not add text at this position. Viewing the file in a hex editor revealed a lot of spaces (284 to be accurate) after the opening parenthesis. Probably I've added those spaces without knowing it (resting my book "beginning Ruby" on the space bar ^ ^). Still, I feel the editor should handle a few hundred chars on a line without misbehaviour. I attached a copy of the text file. Thanks for developing and maintaining this simple but useful editor! Tor ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit Package: gedit 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gedit Tags: ubuntu-unr Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/505765/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
