Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[Maf. King]

Hi Colin,

maybe the 3 attached images help explain.

Press e  (1.png)
Press x (2.png)
Press : (3.png)


these are all individual key presses, then stop, switch to take screen grab, 
save image, back to GC and type.

I did 4 or 5 trial txns in this sequence, each one was different in the way it 
behaved, varying from not showing the glitch at all and getting 4 levels down 
the tree to this go that failed after 2 key presses...

Maf.



On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 15:31:05 GMT Colin Law wrote:
> No I am wrong again.  Yes there is something odd going on, it is just that
> I had never noticed as I have always hit right arrow when it has auto
> filled the correct string before hitting :
> 
> What is happening is that when : is hit it should skip to the end before
> entering the : but in fact it (under some as yet undefined circumstances)
> just enters the : inline.  For me, though, I am not seeing the ood there,
> it just puts the : in and deletes the tentative ood that it has put there
> ready for me to use.
> 
> This is on GC 2.6.13 on Ubuntu 16.10
> 
> Colin
> 
> On 22 February 2017 at 15:20, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, I think I have maybe misinterpreted the explanation. It does fill in
> > the ood directly you hit : but does not move the cursor to after that so
> > when you type Di it inserts it before the ood. Is that right?
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> > On 22 February 2017 at 15:17, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Do you mean you still get the text in the wrong order when you type
> >> slowly? So it does not fill in the ood till after you have typed :Di (or
> >> whatever is appropriate for your accounts) even if you wait after the
> >> colon?
> >> 
> >> Colin
> >> 
> >> On 22 February 2017 at 14:57, Matt Kowske <jmk at cmail.nu> wrote:
> >>> Unfortunately, no -- I have tried typing very slowly and it will still
> >>> randomly unselect the text I am typing in. Interesting two cases with
> >>> KDE
> >>> Plasma I will see if I can boot into another WM and try there.
> >>> 
> >>> On 02/22/2017 08:46 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Is it possibly a function of how fast you type? If you manage to type
> >>> :Di
> >>> before it has filled in the ood that it gets confused?
> >>> 
> >>> Colin
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