Ned Deily added the comment:
OK, I *did* spend a little more time on this and am now able to reproduce the
behavior solely running the following Tcl code with tclsh:
package require Tk
set w .text
catch {destroy $w}
toplevel $w
text $w.text -setgrid 1 -height 30 -font "Courier 20"
pack $w.text
Ned Deily added the comment:
Using Cocoa Tk 8.5.13 and IDLE from either 2.7.3 and 3.3.0 on OS X 10.8.2, I
can reproduce the behavior you report. However, I do not see the behavior when
using Python 2.7.3 linked with the older Carbon Tk 8.4. I tried without success
to reproduce the behavior us
Irwin Jungreis added the comment:
I have reopened this issue because there are still cases where it does not
work. I installed 8.5.13 and the IDLE patch as suggested. That fixed the
particular case that I had used to demonstrate the problem (a file containing
just two characters M1). However,
Ned Deily added the comment:
Thanks for the additional information. I am now able to reproduce the behavior
you observe when using ActiveTcl 8.5.11.1 and also when using the
Apple-supplied 8.5.9 in OS X 10.8; presumably, it is also an issue with earlier
versions of Cocoa Tk 8.5. The good new
Irwin Jungreis added the comment:
The output of the commands you suggested is below. I've attached a short video
showing the problem (listen for the mouse clicks). I also tried with a variety
of fonts (proportional and fixed) and font sizes, both bold and not bold, and
all had the same problem
Ned Deily added the comment:
Sorry, I'm not able to reproduce the behavior you report, either using a
current OS X 10.8.2 system with python.org 2.7.3 and ActiveTcl 8.5.13 or on a
virtual 10.6.8 system with an 8.5.12 ActiveTcl. That said, such behavior would
almost certainly be due to behavio
New submission from Irwin Jungreis:
Often, when selecting text in IDLE, the first character of the selected region
does not get selected. The problem occurs because sometimes, not always, when
clicking on the left half of a character the insertion point gets put after the
character, while othe
