Re: v6: weird cursor behaviour
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- Subject: [mg77317] Re: v6: weird cursor behaviour
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:31:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Will, V.6 XP SP2: I can verify your observation. Wolfram should take note. Daniel Will Robertson wrote: > Hello, > > My original post never made it through, so I'm reposting my problem. I > get very weird behaviour when using the up/down arrow keys that is > quite inconsistent. > > For example, at the moment, I can open a new document, paste in the > following text to create a cell: > > a := 1 > b := 1 > c := 1 > d := 1 > e := 1 > f := 1 > g := 1 > > evaluate it by hitting enter, then click at the end of line "a", hit > the down arrow twice -- and the cursor will jump to the end of line > "g". Hitting up twice brings the cursor to the beginning of line "f", > and then up again takes the cursor back *down* to the end of line "g". > > (Skip this paragraph if you don't care for further descriptions of > weird behaviour.) > Then pressing down to exit the cell, then left to get the cursor back > to the end of line "g" resets the cursor behaviour, and I can use any > combination of up and down arrow presses to move one line up and down > as I would expect. But then clicking the mouse to move the cursor to > the end of any of the lines makes a double tap of either the up and > down arrow keys take the cursor to the end of the cell, rather than > just up or down a single line. > > I know it's hard to describe here, but I don't have the facilities > here to make a video screen grab. > > It's all very strange. Can anyone else confirm this behaviour, or is > it somehow specific to my machine? > I'm running Mathematica v6 on Windows XP sp2. > > Many thanks, > Will > >