Spell-check underlines spaces when inserting text

[Rob Speer]

Binary package hint: empathy

The situation: I'm typing something in Empathy, and then I realize I wanted to say something else before it, so I move my cursor back and type some more.

When I do that, red underlines dance around on the words I'm currently typing. In the end, every space character that I type ends up underlined as a misspelling.

Steps to reproduce: in an Empathy window, type "I'm typing a sentence here first." Then move the cursor back to the beginning of the line and type "Now I'm typing a different sentence later." In addition to the "m" of "I'm" being underlined (that's bug #536655), every space in "Now I'm typing a different sentence later" is underlined.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 23 16:31:01 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.29.92-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64

[Rob Speer (rspeer)]

After the feedback at bug #536655, I checked whether this bug occurs in other GTK programs such as gedit. It doesn't -- I can only produce this bug in Empathy.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

as per comment #10 in bug 536655 marking duplicate