cannot extend the text selection to the last character in line

[Christopher Yeleighton]

Binary package hint: gedit

Offending text:
Received: from px1.arcticpaper.com ([212.209.54.22]) by
 tbsemun01mail02.mab.trebruk.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed,
 24 Oct 2007 17:49:00 +0200
Steps to reproduce:
Display this text in word wrap mode such that SMTPSVC is at end of line (the editor wraps at the opening parenthesis).
Click before SMTPSVC and drag the mouse to the end of line.
Expected result:
SMTPSVC is selected.
Actual result:
SMTPSV is selected.
Workaround:
Drag the mouse to the beginning of the following line (very inconvenient!)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 24 18:34:59 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gedit
ProcCwd: /home/giecrilj
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux a1dmin 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:31:23 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Nicolas Joyard (joyard-nicolas)]

Thanks for the report. Bug reproduced here.

[Nicolas Joyard (joyard-nicolas)]

(gedit version: 2.20.1)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517434