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Has anyone seen the "Jumping around text in the text editor" thing?  

Is there a bug report in on it?

And yes, we've turned off Structured Highlighting.

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  1. Rob UttleyOctober 15, 2015 at 8:36 AM

    I would not presume that you would make the mistake I'm about to describe, Nick Hodges , but this might amuse everyone anyway.

    I had a situation in XE8 the other day, where for about half an hour I would find that after I stopped typing code for a moment or two, the caret would jump to another part of the editor file. I'd sigh, and click back, and then a few moments later the caret would jump again.

    I'm embarrassed (but adult enough) to admit that after a while I realised what was happening - I'd inadvertently left TestInsight running on 'automatic' from a previous session, and every time I stopped typing for a few moments the caret would jump to the next line that wouldn't compile, because in the background it was trying to compile the project to auto-run the unit tests....

    It confused me for a while anyway. Moral of the story? Don't leave TestInsight running in the background on large projects don't even have until tests (just a single sample one). Schoolboy error, really.

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  2. Nick HodgesOctober 15, 2015 at 8:39 AM

    It happens when you click around in the editor, and when you scroll.  Restarting IDE doesn't help.

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  3. Mason WheelerOctober 15, 2015 at 12:03 PM

    The text editor has had serious, if infrequent, instabilities as far back as Delphi 2005.  Doesn't surprise me that they're still around.

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  4. Asbjørn HeidOctober 15, 2015 at 12:13 PM

    Disable all IDE addons?

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  5. Dalija PrasnikarOctober 15, 2015 at 12:14 PM

    My IDE pet peeve has been closed as "cannot reproduce" few days ago https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-9900

    As long as we cannot successfully reproduce such issues we'll just keep seeing them every now and then.

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  6. Asbjørn HeidOctober 15, 2015 at 12:15 PM

    Wait it's not the line endings again?

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  7. Bill MeyerOctober 15, 2015 at 12:29 PM

    Dalija Prasnikar Issues which occur intermittently in the IDE are not necessarily reproducible on command. The only way such things will be resolved is by someone with a good deal of specific knowledge in the editor imagining what mechanisms could be responsible. 

    In the end, the difficulty of reproducing them does not render them less important.

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  8. Dalija PrasnikarOctober 15, 2015 at 12:32 PM

    Bill Meyer I know.
    IMO such issues should not be closed as cannot reproduce. I am not saying that whole team should suddenly start digging around editor code to find and eliminate bugs, but having open issue can help when someone starts digging around the code to know what users experience.

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  9. Bill MeyerOctober 15, 2015 at 12:37 PM

    Dalija Prasnikar It is also a reality that these issues which persist across multiple releases become increasingly annoying to users. Certainly, we encounter defects in our own code which can be difficult to reproduce, but sooner or later, we find the right clue, and are able to resolve them.

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  10. David BernedaOctober 15, 2015 at 12:52 PM

    I get sometimes some seconds of flickering, the whole ide flickers until I click somewhere or do a minimize/maximize. Another issue I have frequently is no keyboard access to ide menu shortcuts (using classic key layout), alt+something not working.

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  11. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 15, 2015 at 1:51 PM

    /sub

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  12. AvatarxOctober 15, 2015 at 11:05 PM

    /jump around

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  13. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 15, 2015 at 11:46 PM

    I've this odd thing on some machines that the editor isn't repainting while typing from the physical machine. This works flawlessly over RDP.

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  14. Nick HodgesOctober 16, 2015 at 1:42 PM

    Randy Sill Thanks for the confirmation.  I think it went away for my boss, but it is weird.

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