Comment 5 for bug 505765

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leibnix (torgausen) wrote : Re: [Bug 505765] Re: gedit problem with long lines

Uh... upstream? Where is that?

^_^

2010/5/14 Martin Mai <email address hidden>:
> Have you sent this upstream? May you tell us the link? Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> gedit problem with long lines
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505765
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>
> Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gedit
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was editing a text file when the cursor began to behave strangely. The file contained these lines:
>
> CREATE TABLE people(
>        integer primary key,
>        name varchar(50),
>        age integer
> )
>
> When I put the cursor after the 'l' in 'people', the arrow key would not move the cursor to the right. Instead it jumped to the next line. Similarly, I could not add text at this position.
>
> Viewing the file in a hex editor revealed a lot of spaces (284 to be accurate) after the opening parenthesis. Probably I've added those spaces without knowing it (resting my book "beginning Ruby" on the space bar ^ ^). Still, I feel the editor should handle a few hundred chars on a line without misbehaviour.
>
> I attached a copy of the text file.
>
> Thanks for developing and maintaining this simple but useful editor!
>
> Tor
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
> Package: gedit 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gedit
> Tags:  ubuntu-unr
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686
>
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Have a good day,
Tor

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