Cursor offset, hard to work with Notpad++

GerhardKreuzer

Hi,
since some weeks I run into a problem:

There is an offset between the cursor and the position, where the action takes place.

Screenshot 2023-05-30 193942.png

Here the cursor is where the black line is, but hitting <DEL> the charcter ‘r’ is deleted and ‘n’ survives…

Its hard to edit text files which this editor, sorry.

Newest version running on Win 10 Pro.

With best regards

Gerhard

Lycan Thrope

@GerhardKreuzer ,
You’ll need to provide more information, Gerhard. Especially you should provide your configuration information by going to ?->Debug Info... and copying it to your clipboard to be pasted into a message here.

My first impression of your graphic explanation will seem wierd, but I see numbers with spaces and then the rn close together, suggesting to me, that it may be some kind of code page character I’m unfamiliar with. This is a guess, since I can’t see any debug info that shows your codepage, configuration, plugins, etc., so take that with a grain of salt and bring that information and possibly a ‘real’ screenshot of the behavior so someone more qualified than me can intelligently assist you.

Michael Vincent

@Lycan-Thrope said in Cursor offset, hard to work with Notpad++:

My first impression of your graphic explanation will seem wierd,

@GerhardKreuzer

Graphic and explanation together seem weird. Pressing DEL should not even delete the n character if indeed the manually drawn black line is the caret. It should be deleting the presumed space between the n and the 0 characters. The Backspace should “delete” the n character.

You say “newest version” but please as @Lycan-Thrope suggests, provide the menu ?=>Debug Info… output.

Cheers.

PeterJones

@GerhardKreuzer said in Cursor offset, hard to work with Notpad++:

Its hard to edit text files which this editor, sorry.

Then you are doing something wrong.

Here is a video screen capture of me moving the caret (the vertical typing bar) after the n, after the r, and after the space, and hitting the DELETE key each time (and undo each). All three delete the character to the right of the caret, as they are supposed to.

As a reminder, DELETE deletes the key to the right of the caret; BACKSPACE deletes the character to the left of the caret.

Idea: there is Settings > Preferences > Editing configuration in the section Caret Settings. It defaults to Width: 1, but I am wondering if you have Width: Block After selected instead. If you do that, the caret before the r will look like this: