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I had seen this in recent builds, but hadn't noticed it till today. When you press the "?" key (or the "?" character, couldn't tell), the editor acts as if I were inserting, the next character is deleted. From the user point of view, the character at the caret position is replaced by a "?". It does not matter whether I'm editing a coment, an executable line, or a .properties file. Insert mode behaves exactly the same (this time as expected). I have a Spanish keyboard (with the Ñ) on an Olivetti Olibook Series 500: Keyboard Name Teclado PS/2 estándar Keyboard Type IBM enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard Keyboard Layout Spanish ANSI Code Page 1252 - @%SystemRoot%\system32\mlang.dll,-4612 OEM Code Page 850 Repeat Delay 1 Repeat Rate 31 Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build nbms-and-javadoc-4379-on-091125) Java: 1.7.0-ea; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 16.0-b06 System: Windows Vista version 6.0 running on x86; Cp1252; es_ES (nb)
Created attachment 91664 [details] My editor setings (in case it's) of use
Umm, could you please try the same with java notepad (eg. run java -jar $JAVA_HOME/demo/jfc/Notepad/Notepad.jar)? Thanks
Thanx for the tip: from Java's Notepad demo: Original text: 123456789 caret positioned after the '5' Pressed '?'(Shift+'): 12345?789 Pressed ': 123456'789 After inserting the ? after the '5', on the edit menu, there appear two undo actions: -"Undo addition" -"Undo deletion" (the original texts are in Spanish: -"Deshacer adición" and -"Deshacer supresión") This is the order in the undo list, so actions are done in the reverse order. So, this might be a bug in Java? If so, reporting it from you would get more attention than if I file the issue by my self.
(In reply to comment #3) > Thanx for the tip: > from Java's Notepad demo: > Original text: > 123456789 > caret positioned after the '5' > Pressed '?'(Shift+'): > 12345?789 > Pressed ': > 123456'789 Umm, this sounds strange. Isn't Shift+' some sort of a prefix/modifier key, which should normally be followed by certain characters to produce an accented character?
I don't think so. In this keyboard it's not a dead key. Anyway I don't get used to all these pletora of kb layouts and languages; and I can't find a decent English keyboard in this country. This kb has: ' which is not a dead key, ` (dead key, but not used in Spanish),´ (the accent used in Spanish), ç (not used in Spanish since 1492 or so) and many other with the Alt Gr (the right Alt). Anyway, It's not NetBeans issue, so blame it on Sun, Microsoft or Olivetti.
It's not NB related.