Block shift feature behaving badly

[Lee Helmle]

Hi,

I was just upgraded from Redhat Linux 5.4 to 5.5 (2.6.18-92.1.18.el5) on 
a Sun Ultra 24 box. I've been running Nedit 5.5 for quite a while 
without a problem on Linux 5.4 and on Solaris 10 (and could not live 
without it). My current desktop is KDE 3.5.4-13.el5 Red Hat.

When I select text and shift it either right or left, it works fine for 
a few keystrokes (usually one or two, but up to five). Then the select 
highlight "goes off" and the text line at the cursor (always the lower 
right corner of the rectangle or the next line when full lines are 
selected) continues shifting until I realize I'm no longer doing what I 
intended.

My own Nedit 5.5 executable worked fine on Redhat Linux 5.4. I 
downloaded my own 5.5 just to be safe and it has exactly the same 
problem that the system file has. One other person that made the same 
transition also sees this problem, but another one does not. This is 
fairly repeatable, but the number of shifts (ctrl-0 or ctrl-9) varies. 
Working through the menu, I've gotten up to nine or ten shifts, but the 
same thing always happens (i.e., it's not my mouse). It seems a little 
odd that I can get more shifts if I go slower, but on this machine -- I 
don't think timing enters into this.

Everything else that I've tried seems to work as expected, but that's 
not an exhaustive test. While I believe this is not an Nedit problem (I 
suspect one of the thousands of KDE options), I'm anxious to hear if 
anyone else has seen something like this and might be able to shed some 
light on the matter.

I realize this depends on a lot of variables. I'll be glad to supply 
more information if someone can guide me a bit.

Thanks in advance,
Lee

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Lee Helmle
Aerospace Computing, Inc.
Phone:  650-604-6256
email:  lhelmle at mail.arc.nasa.gov