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Cursor location offset from true location in Editor
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Cursor location offset from true location in Editor
robsc > 2025-04-29 13:52
v3.0.9.4 beta from Setup
Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2 (0S Build 26100.3775)
- This is a longstanding issue.
- The cursor while in Editor almost always will be offset from its true location.
- It makes it difficult to edit text since you don't know where you are within the text.
- The attached image shows the cursor to the left of the period while the true location is at the end of the line. So if I were to press the delete key, it wouldn't delete the period but instead move the next line up to the end of the current line.
- The cursor can be 1 or 2 positions offset and it might have been to 3 before. This makes it more difficult to edit since it's not consistent and you can't account for it.
- This is a longstanding issue.
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RE: Cursor location offset from true location in Editor
Jean Lalonde > 2025-04-29 14:03
This must be very annoying... Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this issue... Does enabling "Fixed width font" does the same? Did you change the default font in "Options, Fonts and colors"? -
RE: Cursor location offset from true location in Editor
Jean Lalonde > 2025-05-04 12:18
I tried again to reproduce the issue on another system with different resolutions and scaling and could not reproduce it. Anybody else having this issue? -
RE: Cursor location offset from true location in Editor
Jean Lalonde > 2025-05-22 14:37
Hi Rob,
Do you still have this issue with the cursor location? I asked the developer of the Scintilla editor and it would help if you could tell us if:
- the issue still occurs if you deselect the "Fixed width font" checkbox?
- this issue occurs on the first line or a wrapped line or only on second or subsequent lines of a wrapped line?
- did you change the default proportional font and if yes what font is it?
Jean