I love GMail, but it has a nasty problem with its text editor when composing a message. Perhaps I should be more specific. When I write a complex email with lots of formatting, it can sometimes mess up the format during composition, and worse cause text insertions to happen at the wrong place unexpectedly.
Up until this point, I hadn’t taken the time to figure out a simple case to illustrate this. Now I have.
Here’s the simple steps you can do, starting with a blank message body:
- Type the letters ABC
- Press RETURN (cursor goes to the next line)
- Click the INDENT button (cursor indents as expected)
- Press SHIFT-RETURN (cursor goes to the next line, still indented)
- Type the letters DEF (which are now indented)
- Press UP (you’re now above the DEF and below the ABC)
- Press DELETE (…not backspace… the white space is closed up, with DEF coming up a line)
- Press END (you’re now at the line end of the letters DEF)
- Type the letter G
At that point, the cursor jumps back up the prior line where you were, and inserts the G up there. In this state, you’ll now be fighting the editor, which will occasionally reposition the cursor to the wrong area.
this happens to me all the time and it annoys the **** out of me. it’s almost reason enough to go back to thunderbird (though I don’t want to). and it looks from your post that it’s been like this for years! tinymce doesn’t do this, so why does gmail?