New newlines are not displayed when the viewable page is full

[Tim Saylor]

Binary package hint: gedit

If the last line in the viewable page is full of text but not wrapped, when enter is pressed to create a new line a scroll bar will appear reducing the viewable page size by the width of the scroll bar and causing the full line of text to wrap. When this happens, the wrapping pushes the newline down below the viewable area and it appears that the newline was not created. gedit will automatically scroll down to that line when any character is entered or the cursor is moved up and then back down, but it is not visible initially and the cursor is hidden on that line, so the user doesn't know where their text will appear when it is typed.

Reproduction steps:
1) open gedit.
2) put one character on a line and press enter as many times as you can without causing the scroll bar to appear.
3) Fill the last line with sequences of a few characters and spaces without causing the line to wrap or a scroll bar to appear.
4) Press enter at the end of this line. The line in step 3 should wrap due to the appearance of the vertical scroll bar reducing the width of the screen, and the newline created in this step should not be visible.

tsaylor@tsaylor-laptop:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

tsaylor@tsaylor-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installed: 2.20.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.20.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.20.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.20.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 29 15:23:13 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gedit 2.20.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gedit
ProcCwd: /home/tsaylor
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux tsaylor-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

I can reproduce this (amd64 gutsy), but you have to do it just right. In step 3 he means fill it all the way to the right before a scrollbar appears.

[Tim Saylor (tim-saylor)]

xtknight is correct. I would have included a sample file to reproduce it, but it's dependent on the size of your window.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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=519717