Help, please, folks!

I am just returning to using Lazarus for the first time in probably 6 months or so, certainly for the first time since I switched operating systems. I am now using Linux Mint 19.3 64-bit with an XFCE desktop. I used fpcupdeluxe and installed the fixes version of both fpc and lazarus via the button at the bottom of the screen. Everything seemed to go OK, I could see no error messages in the downloads and build, and I am now left with (it says) a copy of lazarus v 2.0.7 r 62901 and fpc 3.2.0.

The problem is when I try to key in my code (and I'm creating a new program, not an application). Most of the keys work OK, at least that I have found so far, but an 'i' produces a TAB and then an i, and an 'm' just gives me a new line. The upper case versions of these characters work as expected, so my temporary workround is obviously to use those and the formatter, but to say it's a nuisance is an understatement! I'm using a standard American keyboard layout, and I have not seen this behaviour in any other application, for sure not in the copy of thunderbird which I'm using to write this message! I've also tried a few other applications, and it's only (so far) the lazarus ide that's afflicted.

Anybody have any ideas, please?

Brian.

Are you using it through a Remote desktop or VM or such?

Check the Ctrl key is not pressed. i is the 9th letter and TAB is the 9th ASCII character. Similarly m is the 13th letter and NewLine is the 13th ACII character - which makes  it seem to me somewhere the keyboard is getting confused.

Does this work correctly when you edit a text file?

If so, check the Lazarus Tools-->Options for keyboard input (keys can be assigned specifically there, maybe you have a weird set assigned), although I do not know of a standard setting that would cause this. I have however seen stuff like that happen when I had the Ctrl and/or Alt key stuck down or used it via remote desks.

Good luck!
Ryan

There is a bugreport about the m->newline issue somewhere.

Bart

R.Smith wrote

Are you using it through a Remote desktop or VM or such?

No.

Yes, I realised the association.

Does this work correctly when you edit a text file?

No. That's what makes me think they keyboard is in the clear (unfortunately I don't have a spare). Lazarus is the *only* application I have been able to find which shows this behaviour.

Yeah, all ideas, but unfortunately, none of them applicable here. I will look at the keyboard input options (hadn't thought of that one).

Brian.

On 4/10/20 9:28 AM, Bart via lazarus wrote:

Sorry if this eventually gets duplicated, I forgot to change my address to the one I use for mailing lists.

There is a bugreport about the m->newline issue somewhere.

Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware of that. I guess I'll continue to use JEdit to write the code and then open the files in the IDE - this is the way we used to do it back in days of yore, you couldn't fit the compiler and the editor in available memory simultaneously! :)

Brian.