485319 - Clicking in text area outside of existing text inserts spaces instead of positioning carat at EOL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Editor, defect)

Description

[Maxwell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090321 Shiretoko/3.5b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008030208 Prism/0.9

In similar fashion to bug for #484626, to prevent whitespace from being saved at EOL's, allow clicking past existing text to move carat to EOL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a file with lines 1-M, with no line having more than N characters
2. Click somewhere in column N+1 or higher.
3. Observe where cursor is placed. At the N+1 or higher column.


Expected Results:  
Cursor appears at EOL.

Comment 1

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is not a bug. It is the default expected behavior.

To get the behavior that you are looking for, enter this command into your Bespin commandline:
set strictlines on

It should give you what you want.

Comment 2

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is a mass migration from Mozilla Labs :: Bespin to Bespin :: Editor.