brauch added a comment.
My guess is right now the view updates when the cursor blinks, so that's why it updates after a short moment (of varying length, though, if you look at the video). Since the line is tagged dirty, it gets repainted correctly, but too late. REPOSITORY R39 KTextEditor BRANCH underMouse (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D26840 To: davidre, #ktexteditor, cullmann Cc: brauch, cullmann, kwrite-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, rrosch, LeGast00n, GB_2, domson, michaelh, ngraham, bruns, demsking, sars, dhaumann