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Bug 435458 - Cursor frequently disappears when editing text
Summary: Cursor frequently disappears when editing text
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 431966
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2014-05-21 21:51 EDT by Craig X CLA
Modified: 2014-05-22 10:03 EDT (History)
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Description Craig X CLA 2014-05-21 21:51:52 EDT 
This would happen occasionally in 4.3, but it happens all the time in 4.4, in both plain text, and java editors. Restarting doesn't help, and it manifests almost immediately.

The cursor continues to function normally while being invisible.

Switching document tabs doesn't bring it back, but switching away from eclipse and back, and switching perspectives, does.

eclipse has android developer tools, maven, and subclipse. The mac is 10.7.5, MBA.
Comment 1 Wojciech Sudol CLA 2014-05-22 02:56:54 EDT 
This is most likely a duplicate of the bug 431966 that fixes a bug introduced in 4.4.
What is the exact version (build) of your Eclipse 4.4? 
Can you try to provide a scenario that reproduces the bug in 4.3?
Comment 2 Craig X CLA 2014-05-22 03:44:15 EDT 
Yes, it seems very similar to bug 431966 including clicking twice on the document tab reshowing the cursor as original reported. Unfortunately, this in 

Eclipse Standard/SDK

Version: Luna M7 Release (4.4.0M7)
Build id: 20140508-1440
Comment 3 Wojciech Sudol CLA 2014-05-22 05:03:04 EDT 
Could you verify that the issue no longer occurs in the latest build? Link to the build: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20140521-2000/ .
Comment 4 Craig X CLA 2014-05-22 09:58:57 EDT 
yes, I think that build works fine. I could not reproduce the bug. Cheers.
Comment 5 Wojciech Sudol CLA 2014-05-22 10:03:11 EDT 
Thank you Craig!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 431966 ***