350362 – "Go to the next word (Ctrl+Right)" in text file does not work for certain cases

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Bug 350362 - "Go to the next word (Ctrl+Right)" in text file does not work for certain cases

Summary: "Go to the next word (Ctrl+Right)" in text file does not work for certain cases

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	SWT (show other bugs)
Version:	3.7
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	3.8 M4
Assignee:	Felipe Heidrich
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Duplicates (2):	362568 370932 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2011-06-25 17:05 EDT by Eldar Abusalimov
Modified:	2012-02-15 11:06 EST (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Description Eldar Abusalimov

2011-06-25 17:05:43 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

In some cases word-by-word navigation in text files does not work properly: when pressing Ctrl+Right caret freezes at some point instead of moving forward.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Text file with a single line:
foo = 
2. Place caret at the end of word "foo":
foo| = 
3. Now press Ctrl+Right. The caret is expected to move to the end of line but it remains at the same position.

Expected:
foo = |

Actual:
foo| =

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2011-06-27 08:15:48 EDT

I can reproduce in 3.7 GTK. Works fine on 3.6 GTK and on 3.7 Windows 7.

The problem also occurs in CustomControlExample > StyledText.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2011-11-02 07:01:09 EDT

Another case reported in bug 362568:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a text file in any editor
2. On a single line, add some whitespace and then a word
3. Ctrl+Left/Right allow you to jump to the beginning/end of the word, but
repeatedly pressing Ctrl+Left will not take you past the whitespace to the

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2011-11-02 07:01:26 EDT

*** Bug 362568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Felipe Heidrich

2011-11-16 11:54:29 EST

fixed http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/commit/?id=e49d876ec140d7ebc28625e48df185a92ae2e105

Comment 5 Felipe Heidrich

2012-02-15 11:06:27 EST

*** Bug 370932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***