https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412516
Bug ID: 412516
Summary: copied text pasted in multiple locations
Product: kate
Version: 18.12.3
Platform: openSUSE RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: kwrite
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: davidbry...@gvtc.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
This is an intermittent error, but very annoying. It also occurs when I'm
running Debian. Sometimes, when I try to copy text from one spot in a document
to another location, the same text is pasted in several places, often far
removed from the "target" location where I had positioned the cursor before
hitting "Ctrl + v" (^v).
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open any text document. select some text, hit ^c or ^x
2. move the cursor somewhere else and hit ^v.
3. usually this works the way it's supposed to.
4. but if you do it often enough, the bug will eventually bite you.
OBSERVED RESULT
Pastes text in locations far removed from the cursor's location when ^v is
pressed.
EXPECTED RESULT
Pastes the copied text only where it's supposed to.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
Linux/KDE Plasma: ✔
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55.0
Qt Version: 5.9.7
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Kate has been my preferred text editor for many years. Up until about two
months ago, I had never experienced this problem. It only started happening
after I switched from Kate 17.12.3 (under openSUSE LEAP 15.0) to Kate 18.12.3
(LEAP 15.1).
The past couple of months I've been working on KDE documentation, so I have
been using the text editor a lot. The first few times this happened I was
totally confused. I would make a small change near say line 2000 of an XML
document, and when I ran "checkXML5" it would report errors at lines 46, 500,
and 750. The errors were caused by text getting inserted in a bad spot (like
after a </para> tag, and before the following <para> tag). I started using
Kwrite instead of Kate, but the problem persisted. So now I'm using gedit to do
most of my text editing. I haven't had this problem with the gnome text editor
... just the KDE versions.
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