I submitted a bug report to Apple. C
On 2011-01-25, at 10:15, cm wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > Same thing unfortunately with either method of retyping. I used, also, to > just highlight and retype, but now because the highlighting will persist > about three times out of four, I generally delete, clear the highlighting if > necessary and then retype. > > A pattern I only just noticed and one that suggests that the problem is a > bug, is that it only occurs when I highlight text using the new > three-finger-swipe gesture on a multi-touch pad. Any other method of > highlighting, keyboard or clicking the track pad, works without problems. > > When the three-finger-swipe gesture became available I swapped to it from the > tap-and-a-half and drag as I find it more convenient and reliable. It does > seem, however, to have this one small anomaly. The fact that TextEdit does > not share the problem suggest that Apple engineers have the correct code > floating around the office somewhere but have not reused it in Mail.app. > > I think I will send a bug report off to Apple. Unless they have already acted > on their own testing or another bug report I am probably too late for 10.6.7 > as that is already in beta. I may have to work around the problem until Lion. > > Thanks for your continued interest and ideas, Ronni! > > Cheers, > Carlo > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
