[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #65646] editor deletes selected text when function key or control key used

[Rik]

Update of bug #65646 (group octave):

                  Status:            Works For Me => Invalid / Not an Octave
Bug
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Summary: editor removes selected text => editor deletes
selected text when function key or control key used

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Follow-up Comment #3:

Normal behavior when text is selected, and then new text is typed, is for the
selected text to be deleted and the newly typed text to replace the old text.

That is what should happen for normal new text, but for function keys such as
F9 or modified keys such as Ctrl+F this deletion should not occur.

This could be a bug in the libraries.  A little googling led me to this
report: https://github.com/Mezomish/juffed/issues/112.  Symptom seems to be
the same, and Qscintilla library probably to blame.  I'm going to mark this as
an upstream bug, rather than an Octave bug.

Note that the actions to reproduce the bug mentioned in the github report
specify that the program outside of Octave needs to be using a textbox widget.
 That probably explains the observation by Clément that only certain external
programs trigger the bug (e.g., *not* rythmbox).


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