Cannot right-arrow past end of line
lazarus / 9-Editor

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murray · 2012-10-23 18:04

I'm on SVN lazarus on Win64 (rev 39148), and I think I've accidentally
hit some key sequence that's toggled an editor mode, where I cannot
move the caret using the right-arrow key beyond the second-last
character on a line.
If I go to the end of another, longer line, then down-arrow, then the
caret stays on the correct column, but I can then only go left (right
arrow does not move right).
For example, if I have two lines:
{ this is a comment X}
{ short}
then on the first line, I can hold right-arrow, and the caret stops
between the X and }. I can then down-arrow, and then up-arrow, and the
caret is still between the X and }. However, if I down-arrow, left-
arrow, right-arrow (which is ignored), up-arrow, the caret is now
before the X.

I've checked the options "Editor | General | Caret part end of line"
(checked), and "Codetools | General | Cursor beyond EOL" (checked),
but they make no difference to the above.
This is driving me nuts!
Anyone know what I've switched on, and how to turn it off ?

TIA

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Martin_fr · 2012-10-23 19:58

Can you set the caret past EOL using the mouse?

What you describe sounds like a bug. There is only one setting "Allow
caret past EOL". If you can go from the long line, then it should be
on.

Please rebuild your lazarus using "clean all". Sometimes (very rare),
if you just build, something goes wrong.

If that does not help:
- Test on a line with only a-z (no tabs, no anything else)
- Attach your EditorOptions.xml, and a unit with which it has
happened. (unless it happens on the plain a-z line too)

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murray · 2012-10-24 09:42

Thanks for the fast reply, Martin_fr.

Quote from: Martin_fr on October 23, 2012, 09:58:53 pmPlease rebuild
your lazarus using "clean all". Sometimes (very rare), if you just
build, something goes wrong.

Armed with the knowledge that this isn't some option I've enabled,
I've updated the svn, made sure everything's happy (all green ticks in
TortoiseSVN), done a make clean all, and this problem's gone!
You live and learn...

Thanks again.