V16.64... quirky problems...
Posted: 20 Jun 2026 03:08
Okay, this is going to be difficult to analyze, as it is not repeatable... but I have had two different editor malfunctions today...
I am on Windows 10 Pro, I've been editing an html file, 8800 lines long. Other than this, I have a couple of text files, and intermittently have other html files loaded as well. Just to clarify, the editor had been open for several days, and I've been editing this one particular html file continuously for about two days.
issue from earlier today: I have a scratch-pad text file called x.txt, that I always keep open; it's usually used for stripping formatting data out of stuff that I get off the web. Today I've used it a few times to convert pdf text to regular text. But one time, I went to paste text into x.txt, and the program was completely confused; I would click on the tab for x.txt, and it would do various incorrect things, such as highlighting part of the x.txt tab, or highlighting a box in the text area. I tried clicking on other files, including my html file, and various odd things kept happening. I tried clicking the upper-right-corner close button, but it didn't work. I finally killed the editor from the command line, using pskill. When I re-opened the editor, it was working fine.
Just a few minutes ago, I was trying to edit a line in the html file (at line 6006); I was trying to insert "[4], then correct the beginning of the existing line, but it was doing strange things, such as ignoring the "[4", insert the "]", then jump a few characters into the existing string, and insert the "[4" down there... nothing that I typed would fix it. This time, I was able to close the editor using the title bar close button, and everything is working now...
but *something* is very confused...
At this point, this is all I have to offer, but if you have any suggestions of other things that I can do to help debug this, let me know and I'll do them.
For now, just be aware that something is a little flaky in the existing implementation...
I am on Windows 10 Pro, I've been editing an html file, 8800 lines long. Other than this, I have a couple of text files, and intermittently have other html files loaded as well. Just to clarify, the editor had been open for several days, and I've been editing this one particular html file continuously for about two days.
issue from earlier today: I have a scratch-pad text file called x.txt, that I always keep open; it's usually used for stripping formatting data out of stuff that I get off the web. Today I've used it a few times to convert pdf text to regular text. But one time, I went to paste text into x.txt, and the program was completely confused; I would click on the tab for x.txt, and it would do various incorrect things, such as highlighting part of the x.txt tab, or highlighting a box in the text area. I tried clicking on other files, including my html file, and various odd things kept happening. I tried clicking the upper-right-corner close button, but it didn't work. I finally killed the editor from the command line, using pskill. When I re-opened the editor, it was working fine.
Just a few minutes ago, I was trying to edit a line in the html file (at line 6006); I was trying to insert "[4], then correct the beginning of the existing line, but it was doing strange things, such as ignoring the "[4", insert the "]", then jump a few characters into the existing string, and insert the "[4" down there... nothing that I typed would fix it. This time, I was able to close the editor using the title bar close button, and everything is working now...
but *something* is very confused...
At this point, this is all I have to offer, but if you have any suggestions of other things that I can do to help debug this, let me know and I'll do them.
For now, just be aware that something is a little flaky in the existing implementation...
