RE: [ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-411385 ] caret not where text is being put

--On Monday, March 26, 2001 10:31 AM -0700 John Barnette <Joh...@xo...> wrote:

> I saw similar behavior starting in jEdit 3.0.x, on Red Hat Linux 6.2 with
> IBM's JDK; In italic text (comments, et cetera), actual cursor position and
> carat display would often be separated by three or four characters.
>
> This occurred before the release of the AntiAlias plugin, so I doubt it's
> related.  Being rather pragmatic, I solved this problem by removing italics
> from all styles. ;-)

I also used to see this with certain VM's prior to the AntiAlias plugin.
It hasn't really been a problem of late. However, this problem is
exacerbated by the AA plugin if the option to use fractional font
metrics is selected. I would try not using that option, or removing
the plugin as a first pass at fixing the problem.

Todd

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