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New cursor/caret behaviour in editor

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

Since my latest Lazarus svn update of today, I noticed the editor cursor (caret) behaves differently.

eg:
I could place the cursor in column 30 and press the down arrow. Irrespective of the amount of characters in each line I cross, the cursor will stay at column 30.

I played around with the editor settings to see if I can get that functionality back again. The closest I could get was "Keep caret X position". But even then the cursor jumps around (to eol positions) if I went from a long line to a few short lines. This is distracting.

Was the constant cursor (caret) position feature removed on purpose, or was it broken by accident due to the last couple of editor changes?

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Mattias Gärtner
Mattias G?rtner wrote 6 lines
> I could place the cursor in column 30 and press the down arrow. > Irrespective of the amount of characters in each line I cross, the > cursor will stay at column 30. Do you mean 'scroll past end of line'? If enabled the caret can move into the space behind the last character of the line.

Ah, that resolves the issue. I must have been unticked that my accident. I thought that only affects the scrollbars, not the cursor position. Thanks Mattias and sorry for the false alarm.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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