[issue16770] Selection in IDLE often skips first character

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

[issue16770] Selection in IDLE often skips first character

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

[issue16770] Selection in IDLE often skips first character

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