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[Robert Roth <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marking this as Fix Released, as the fix is already available in the
Oneiric release, in gedit 3.2.0, as Upstream GNOME has fixed the issue
for 3.0.1. Feel free to reopen if you still can reproduce this, and
please include the steps you are using to reproduce the issue.

** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Paste function places buffer text in random places in document

Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
  Fix Released
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Currently I am running the 8.04 (Hardy) release, version 2.22.3
  (Ubuntu 2008-07-09), kernal 2.6.24-23-386 (#1 Sun Jan 25 23:32:00 UTC
  2009), GCC version 4.2.4 (i486-linux-gnu).

  I have run a few versions of Ubuntu over the last 3 or 4 years on a
  Compaq Presario with 900 MHz AMD Duron(tm) Processor. And I have
  always had this problem while using the Ubuntu Text Editor, any other
  text editor, or any word processor. It has been on all versions, so I
  suspect it is hardware specific, but have not been able to test it on
  other computers.

  After I copy or cut some text into the buffer (using Ctrl-C or
  Ctrl-X), and after I move the cursor to the place in the document
  where I want to paste, then try to paste using Ctrl-V, nothing appears
  to happen. However, the paste function has indeed pasted the text as
  soon as I pressed Ctrl-V. The problem is that it has pasted all the
  buffer text into a randomly chosen location within the document.

  The randomly selected paste location is often fairly close to the
  place where I want to paste the text, and often a few paragraphs
  above. But it can also be absolutely anywhere else, above or below the
  place where the cursor is located. To find that randomly placed text,
  I can use the search function, or (better yet) press the undo function
  keys (Ctrl-Z).

  If I do not immediately remove the randomly placed text, it will
  remain in the document. Thus, many of my documents on the internet
  have been partially ruined, and contain some nonsense words, sentences
  and paragraphs. For example, if I was cutting and pasting the word
  "existentialism," and somewhere else in the document there was the
  clause "the dog bit the postman," then the paste function might
  randomly place the buffer right in the middle of another word like
  this: "the dog bit the postmexistentialisman."

  Whenever I see nothing happen after pressing Ctrl-V, I know the paste
  Function has placed the buffer text into a randomly selected location
  somewhere else in the document. Of course, I cannot see where it has
  done this, since It will paste the text absolutely anywhere in the
  document, but leave the cursor exactly where I put it in the first
  place.

  But if nothing happens when I press Ctrl-V, I do not press Ctrl-V
  again. Instead, I press Ctrl-Z (undo). That will remove the buffer
  text which was randomly pasted somewhere in the document, then move my
  cursor to that particular spot. Of course, after this I need to return
  to where I was originally working. Since many of my documents are more
  than 50,000 words, trying to find the place where I was originally
  working in the document can be very time consuming and frustrating.

  One thing that sometimes helps is if I click and double-click about
  ten times on the spot where I want to paste something. When I do that,
  chances of successfully pasting the buffer text at the cursor's
  location are better, although still not certain.

  This bug is very frequent, occurring about half the time I use the cut
  and paste function.

  But now another similar problem has arisen. Before I updated to 8.04
  (Hardy), the search function (Ctrl-F) would never randomly paste what
  was in the copy buffer into a randomly selected place in the document.
  However, I have seen the search function do this twice while I was
  using the Ubuntu Text Editor. I have not seen it do this more than
  twice, although it may have done so without my catching it. And I have
  not yet seen the search function do this in the Open Office word
  processor. But I have confirmed that it has done this in the Text
  Editor at least twice.

  I don't know if this problem can be fixed, except by getting a new
  computer, since I suspect that it might be a hardware problem. But if
  there is something I can do about it, I sure would appreciate some
  help. This bug has really caused some serious problems at times.

  Thanks. Greg.

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