250334 - Lines in text file aren't rendered (making a selection through them does show them)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jesse Houwing]

I had written a rule for SpamAssassin and uploaded it to their bugzilla, but if
you look at the file whole lines show up empty where data should be.

This file is just plain text, so there should not be any problem showing it.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

I see three extremely long lines, one blank, and then three short lines.
Selecting text does not "reveal" any hidden text.

1.8a2 20040704, Linux

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

I´m seeing the same as described in comment #1, but only if using 'View Page
Source' with option 'Wrap long lines', available in the View menu of the source
view window. Even then there is part of a line disappearing near the end of the
line, and further part reappearing if you scroll on.

In normal view I don´t see the first line at all, and only part of it, if I
double-click onto the empty area where it should be, or try to select something
over there.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616


Query gives 41 bugs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=long+line&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

Bug 35229 Lines of text longer than 3638 characters disappear in laying out
(including in input boxes, location bar)

Bug 92193 Very long line is not fully rendered

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a Windows-only bug... not a problem on Linux.

Comment 4

[Wayne Woods]

Pretty sure this was fixed by the check-ins for bug 237085. I'm certainly seeing no vanishing problems at any text size for the testcase file (unless part of the string is highlighted, but that's bug 346234). Please reopen if you can find this bug in a recent nightly build.