Hi Ian, I can't be entirely sure from your description, but it sounds to me that you have come across the same bug that I posted about a couple of weeks back. I have to dash off to shop for my Mum right now, but please have a quick read of the series of emails with the title "Mail.app highlighting after delete in OS X"
It is an issue that has also been troubling me for some months now, and I have found others in the Apple support forums with the same problem. I resorted in the end to posting a bug report to the Apple support site. I have to run, but if this is the problem I'll be more specific when I next have some computer time later today. Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 05/02/2011, at 12:03, Ian Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning all. > > This posting will get me into trouble, one way or another, but here goes. My > wife has been complaining, on and off, for some weeks that our iMac core 2 > duo has been playing up. She loses text intermittently when correcting typos > in her outbound emails on the fly. This has never happened to me and, up till > now, I have retained the right to have, if not express, a different opinion. > > This morning I watched the screen as she attempted to correct a mis-spelled > word by deleting back to and including the error. Momentarily the whole line > turned blue and then instantly disappeared as she continued to hit Delete. > > Any suggestions as to why this is happening will be gratefully received. > > Ian Reid > > > > -- 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]> > -- 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]>
