Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bellcore!att!cbnewsl!cbnewsk!ech
From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Cursor Happenings
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.174756.666@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 17:47:56 GMT
References: <10368@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 27

From article <10368@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, by dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Mittman):
> HyperCardiacs:
> 
> I have been seeing some interesting things happening to my cursor
> as I edit fields and scripts. Start with the cursor in the middle
> of a line, press the left arrow repeatedly to move the cursor 
> toward the beginning of the line. The cursor moves to the place
> between the first and second characters of the line, then the next
> left arrow press moves the cursor to the end of the previous line,
> totally skipping the beginning of the line:
> 
> This is the previous line.
> T|his is a test line.
>  \----Cursor between "T" and "h", press Left Arrow...
> 
> This is the previous line.|
> This is a test line.      \----Cursor at end of previous line.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> 				- David Mittman
> 				DMittman@Beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV

I've seen the same thing in non-HC apps that use TextEdit, under 6.0.7.
Apparently this is a bug fix side-effect (aka a new bug!)

=Ned Horvath=