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unixwork / xnedit

A fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering.
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Possible bug, perhaps related to split pane #116

Closed cblc closed 1 year ago

cblc commented 1 year ago

This has happened to me twice, but I don't know how to reproduce it. Anyway, I believe that in both occasions I had used the "split pane" feature on the affected file, some time before the issue happened (in the same session). Anyway, when the issue happened, I was in single window mode again (ie: no split pane at that moment).

The problem is that suddenly (I think that it happens after applying copy/paste) I get two cursors at the same time. It's kinda cool 🤣 because whatever I type, it appears in two places of the document at the same time. It's like if you were playing a videogame in "2 player mode" 🤣

Anybody else saw this too? (I'm on MacOS)

cblc commented 1 year ago

Ah, I forgot: when it happens, it's fixed by enabling "split pane", and disabling it again. Then XNEdit realizes there's only one joystick plugged 🤣 and disables one of the cursors.

unixwork commented 1 year ago

It is not a bug, it is the new multicursor feature (Help -> Basic Operation -> Multi-cursor Editing)

You can add additional cursors with ctrl+left click. To return to single cursor mode, press escape or just do a normal left click to any text position.

cblc commented 1 year ago

Oh la la 😄 I need to buy another joystick then 😄 It's a cool feature, BTW.

cblc commented 1 year ago

By the way, I feel like the current mouse/keys combination for multicursor is prone to getting undesired multiple text pasting if you are clicking with the mouse and pressing Ctrl+V very quickly. Quite often, the left click I perform with the mouse for specifying where to paste the text, becomes combined with the Ctrl+V key press, and XNEdit starts a multicursor there.

cblc commented 1 year ago

FWIW, I keep hitting this... quick mouse clicks with Ctrl+V made me break a code line yesterday, and another today (because of inadvertently starting multicursor mode).

unixwork commented 1 year ago

I've implemented a workaround for that. If you accidentally press Ctrl+Button1+V, it adds only the text to new position.

You could also compile xnedit without the multicursor feature now if you add -DDISABLE_MULTICURSOR to CFLAGS.