Re: Re: BUG REPORT: SQL Editor selects too much text after you hit return and select "one line"

> If your OS is using the default US keyboard mapping layout

yes, it is.

> then this probably is not the issue,

Unfortunately, I wish it was.

I use the EnterpriseDB installer from

http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload

to install on a Macbook Air with US English keyboard.

OS is OS X 10.8.5, recent install.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Colin Beckingham <colbec(at)start(dot)ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 13:14 -0400, k mac wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I received one response to my enquiry asking me to "Change your
> > keyboard" which is something I cannot do, as the keyboard is part of
> > the notebook I'm typing on.
> >
> > Not sure of the process here. Should I expect a response from support
> > or development? If so, within a week, month, … ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:31 AM, k mac <kmac(at)loxcel(dot)com> wrote:
> > PRODUCT: pgADMIN SQL Editor
> >
> >
> > VERSION: pgADMIN version 1.18.1 (Apr 9 2014, rev: REL-1_18_1)
> >
> >
> > ISSUE: Editor selects too much text after you hit return and
> > select "one line".
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The following example illustrates the issue:
> >
> >
> >
> > cursor-1.png shows three lines of text in SQL Editor, with the
> > cursor positioned in the middle of the 1st line:
> >
> >
> > Inline image 1
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > cursor-2.png shows the effect of pressing the Enter / Return
> > key:
> >
> >
> > Inline image 2
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Up to this point, everything is as expected.
> >
> >
> > cursor-3.png shows the anomaly: after pressing Enter / Return,
> > I then held "Shift" while pressing "cursor down" ONCE, to
> > select the second line of text "efg". However, two lines of
> > text were selected: "efg" and the first four characters from
> > line 3. I know of no other application that behaves this way.
> >
> >
> > Inline image 3
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > cursor-4.png shows what I expected to have happened after
> > pressing "Shift" + "cursor down" ONCE:
> >
> >
> > Inline image 4
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Would you be able to make text selection behave as shown in
> > cursor-4.png?
> >
> >
> >
>
> It's possible that by "change your keyboard" the reference is to the
> keyboard codes returned by keystrokes rather than the actual physical
> keyboard itself. Many operating systems allow you to set your keystrokes
> to refer to different characters depending on the language in use, say
> vowels with accents, c with a cedilla and so on. If your OS is using the
> default US keyboard mapping layout then this probably is not the issue,
> but if some other more obscure layout is in use then pgadmin may have
> some issues handing the input. Just something to consider.
>