Resizing text box can alter text selection range.

[Ron Burk]

Inkscape 0.92.0 r15299, Windows 7

a) open new document
b) Hit F8, click/ drag to create text box
c) Enter a couple dozen words of text (e.g. "Now is the time for..."
d) Ctrl-A to select all the text
d) Now resize the text box by click/dragging the lower-right handle of the text box

As you drag, when the text box gets too small to contain the text, some text at the end of the string will be clipped from view, as expected. However, the selection will also be changed to only include visible text. As you continue to drag and expand the box back out, the formerly clipped text will reappear -- but it will not be selected.

IOW, just shrinking the text box to a small size and then back to its original size in a single click&drag operation will have the unhelpful side-effect of changing the range of the text selection.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Thanks for taking the time to file report!

Bug confirmed on Windows XP (32-bit), lp:inkscape/0.92.x rev. 15364.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Also reproduced with 0.91, 0.48.5 and 0.45.1. Not a recent regression.

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Reproduced in 0.92.4, not reproduced in Inkscape 1.1-dev (c990a67, 2020-04-09), Windows 10 - neither with SVG1.2 nor SVG2 flowed text. Please reopen on http://inkscape.org/report if the problem occurs again.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger