725038 - No visual indication that final line of scratchpad is selected

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

STR:
1. add some lines to scratchpad
2. use keyboard to select multiple lines
3. try to select past the penultimate line

Expected:
The final line is highlighted

Actual:
The final line is not highlighted, but the selection still responds to keyboard events

Comment 1

[Pranav Ravichandran [:pranavrc]]

Created attachment 600878 [details]
Scratchpad selection over the final line

I think this is a cross-platform problem. I can reproduce it in Linux and Windows.

Usually, selection should stop at a point beyond which the caret hasn't traversed, but I might be wrong. If this is a bug to fix in Linux and Windows, I could take it up.

Comment 2

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

(In reply to Josh Matthews [:jdm] from comment #0)
> STR:
> 1. add some lines to scratchpad
> 2. use keyboard to select multiple lines
> 3. try to select past the penultimate line
> 
> Expected:
> The final line is highlighted
> 
> Actual:
> The final line is not highlighted, but the selection still responds to
> keyboard events

This is working "as designed", but it's a bit unexpected, indeed.

If you do Shift-Down you can't move the cursor to some offset that doesn't exist on the next line. This needs to be special-cased in Orion's upstream code to go to the end of the line when it's the last line. Similar for Shift-Up.

Reported the bug upstream:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372898


(In reply to Pranav Ravichandran [:pranavrc] from comment #1)
> Created attachment 600878 [details]
> Scratchpad selection over the final line
> 
> I think this is a cross-platform problem. I can reproduce it in Linux and
> Windows.
> 
> Usually, selection should stop at a point beyond which the caret hasn't
> traversed, but I might be wrong. If this is a bug to fix in Linux and
> Windows, I could take it up.

Thanks Pranav! This is not directly a source editor bug. This is an Orion bug. If you want to fix this, please do it upstream. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion for how to get started.

Comment 3

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Orion upstream has fixed the bug. That fix will land in Firefox with the next Orion update we will do.

Comment 4

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

fixed by upstream changes. Closing.

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