413688 - Spacer keystrokes don't show on screen

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 292580

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Ashford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

In normal mail composing the cursor usually (not always!) moves one space forward after hitting the space bar. Frequently it doesn't leaving the cursor un-moved. When this happens if you type the start of the next word the cursor does jump forward OK to show the word space and the initial letter of the next word.

Can be distracting. Instinctively hitting space bar a second time thinking it wasn't used at all jumps the cursor two spaces meaning the duplicate spaces have to be edited out.       

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Normal mail composition - happens at random.
3.
Actual Results:  
As above

Expected Results:  
The cursor should move one space after every keystroke either a character or the space bar

Using my default Comic Sans MS font

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter could be a dupe of bug #292580?

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Peter, feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong.