Bug 368182

Summary:	Cursor disappears when adding more spaces at the end of a LTR line
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Safa Alfulaij <safa1996alfulaij>
Component:	part	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	andrew.crouthamel, justin.zobel, sh.yaron
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	rtl
Version First Reported In:	16.04
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/commit/dc7d5b99a7691327d0da97e17906c9bba4e35371	Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Safa Alfulaij 2016-09-03 10:43:10 UTC

With word-wrap on:
When you reach the end of the line, and any more word will get to the next line, and you add a space, the cursor goes to the right and disappears from the view.
Simple test: Keep adding spaces tell you reach the end of the line.
For a reason, this behaviour doesn't happen with RTL lines, where the cursor return to the end of last character before it goes off-screen.
A RTL word to test: "خشب".
As with LTR lines, just add the RTL word to force the direction RTL, and keep adding spaces.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-07 00:07:31 UTC

Hi from the Bugsquad!

I can confirm this with Kate 18.08. I presume you would like the LTR behavior to keep the cursor in-screen, but still allow spaces to be entered (as happens with RTL)?

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2020-10-29 10:27:37 UTC

Still an issue on Kate 20.11.70.

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-03-22 15:12:25 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/342

Comment 4 Waqar Ahmed 2022-03-22 17:52:34 UTC

Git commit dc7d5b99a7691327d0da97e17906c9bba4e35371 by Waqar Ahmed.
Committed on 22/03/2022 at 15:11.
Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'.

Fix cursor in RTL text with dyn wrap on

Also fix the issue that the cursor is not visible in column 0.
Related: bug 385694

M  +11   -0    src/render/katerenderer.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/commit/dc7d5b99a7691327d0da97e17906c9bba4e35371