I did not specify a version because I have seen this happen in every version of eclipse that I have tried.
When it happens
- all typed characters land backwards. Like typing hello world will look like. dlrow olleh
- I think that the cursor is at the start of the text being typed, indicated by the up caret character: All is good then backward in mid sentence ^dlrow olleh
- the line numbers along the left of the document are all blank.
- many times the characters typed don't show up either, but saving the document and reopening shows the characters typed are all backwards.
- On occasion stray characters are inserted and none of your typing is added to the document.
To reproduce:
Create a file. Say some.textile
Open it by double clicking and see it open in the editor.
In my case I have line numbers turned on in the editor.
Also I have the outline view to the right of the open document so the document hierarchy can be seen.
Add h1, h2, h3 headings with various levels of headings.
My use case is taking daily notes ... (This is a large file that I edit daily, but it happens even on small files.) As the file grows larger, it happens more frequently. Large is 10,000 lines.
h1. TEAM List
h2. Team1
list members
h2. Team2
Various other handy stuff...
------- right around line 800 I start entering details about daily activity.
----- so this means there are lots of lines from the beginning of the year below this insert point.
---- it seems to happen a lot when adding a new heading, but can happen at any time. I think that the faster I type the more likely it is to happen. Daily notes look like this.
h1. 2021-08-13 Fri
h2. meeting notes
minutes for the meeting here
h1. 2021-08-12 Thu
h2. meeting notes
minutes for the meeting here
h2. meeting 2 notes
minutes for the meeting here
h1. 2021-08-11 Wed
h2. meeting notes
... more M-F notes go here ...
h1. 2021-01-04 Mon
I did not specify a version because I have seen this happen in every version of eclipse that I have tried.
When it happens
To reproduce:
Create a file. Say some.textile
Open it by double clicking and see it open in the editor.
In my case I have line numbers turned on in the editor.
Also I have the outline view to the right of the open document so the document hierarchy can be seen.
Add h1, h2, h3 headings with various levels of headings.
My use case is taking daily notes ... (This is a large file that I edit daily, but it happens even on small files.) As the file grows larger, it happens more frequently. Large is 10,000 lines.
h1. TEAM List
h2. Team1
list members
h2. Team2
Various other handy stuff...
------- right around line 800 I start entering details about daily activity.
----- so this means there are lots of lines from the beginning of the year below this insert point.
---- it seems to happen a lot when adding a new heading, but can happen at any time. I think that the faster I type the more likely it is to happen. Daily notes look like this.
h1. 2021-08-13 Fri
h2. meeting notes
minutes for the meeting here
h1. 2021-08-12 Thu
h2. meeting notes
minutes for the meeting here
h2. meeting 2 notes
minutes for the meeting here
h1. 2021-08-11 Wed
h2. meeting notes
... more M-F notes go here ...
h1. 2021-01-04 Mon