Re: Cut and paste edits misaligned with screen image
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- Subject: [mg14096] Re: [mg14084] Cut and paste edits misaligned with screen image
- From: "Brett H. Barnhart" <brettb>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 03:15:21 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Joe, This is a bug in Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1. Please see http://www.wolfram.com/support/Systems/Macintosh/Compatibility/80.html for the related FAQ and patch. Brett At 03:25 AM 9/22/98 -0400, Joe Gwinn wrote: >I have recently been observing some weird behaviour in Mathematica 3.0.1 >for PowerPC under MacOS 8.1. Everything else seems to work, although I >get weird error messages from time to time. > >The problem appeared only a few months ago, long after the initial >installation of Mathematica 3.0.1. Reinstalling Mathematica didn't >help, and no other application is afflicted. It does not appear to be >a virus. > >The behaviour is that when editing text on the screen, the edit happens >a few characters away (usually to the left) from the blinking edit >point bar. One can in fact do editing with this behaviour, but it's >slow and error prone. The oddity seems to be confined to the current >line, and I have never seen Mathematica become confused about which >line it's on. > >Another odd behaviour that started at about the same time is that >Mathematica variables will get a tail, a hard space to the right. This >space cannot be deleted, and interferes with editing because the >insertion point is usually off by a few characters. > >These oddities affect editing, but seem otherwise harmless. Sliding the >image offscreen and then back may fix the displayed line, but doesn't >affect the misalignment, once started. Not all lines are affected. >Quitting Mathematica and re-launching seems to reset the problem, so >most lines are unaffected. > > >Does anyone have any idea what causes this, and how to fix it? > >My suspicion is that some obscure option has somehow been set. > > >Joe Gwinn > >