[scribus] Ctrl X twice kills Scribus

[jwminer at accessvt.com]

> On 12/17/2010 04:29 PM, Margaret and George McIntosh wrote:
>> On 17 Dec 2010 at 15:10, Tom Connolly wrote:
>>
>>> While I am in the edit text mode, if I use Ctrl X to delete some
>>> copy, then
>>> do it again to delete more copy, the program shuts down
>>> immediately
>>> without
>>> a prompt to save and without saving what's being edited. This
>>> happened to me
>>> twice before I knew what hit me. I am able to reproduce this.
>>> Windows Vista, plenty ram. 1.3.9.
>>> Tom Connolly
>>
>> Tom, I made a new text frame, typed in some text, then used Ctrl X
>> several times to
>> delete text  and it worked correctly. I then made 2 frames and
>> used Ctrl X to delete
>> each. Worked correctly again.
>> Win 7  x64.
>
> What I have subsequently found is that the key thing seems to be
> when
> you finally highlight all the remaining text in the frame. Happened
> both
> with text I had manually entered or with sample text.
>
> Does not happen in Linux (Fedora 14), nor could I see it in 1.3.3.14
> on XP.
>
> I'm using a 1.3.9svn, but since the issue doesn't seem to have been
> reported, probably still exists.

I didn't find the bug with 1.3.9 in VectorLinux 7 alpha 4. I seldom
start Windows, so I couldn't see what happens under 1.3.3.14 in my
XP or Win 7.
--Judy M.
   USA

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Being productive with VectorLinux 6.0 SOHO