New line issue. get multiple characters (Android)

MSE_Stephen

Just to paste in a comment I left over on the main Rich Editor Feedback thread, we're really struggling to reproduce this in a way our forum provider can use to investigate:

At this point, any additional details your members can provide would be extremely helpful (for example: exact steps before the characters repeat, whether they are typing or pasting, and any other device/browser info).

We’re having a hard time gathering concrete evidence to hand this over to our developers, so the more specifics we can collect from affected users, the better positioned we’ll be to move this into a deeper technical investigation.

Any more info any member can provide will be of great help 🙏

Spoonie_Turtle

I'm having this problem intermittently. Android Chrome, not sure what the keyboard is called but it's a Google one designed for English and Chinese.

Edit: just as a piece of info, it happened after a quote on another thread, just now.

Spoonie_Turtle

Still having this problem at times, including with GBoard, the standard keyboard that came with Android. But that's also giving me problems elsewhere with the cursor jumping to part of a word when it autocorrects and it's just an overall nightmare. Just, it's even more so on here with the initial 1-3 letters being duplicated at the beginning of lines, not even confined to the start of the post!

Spoonie_Turtle

Update: so I tried my previous keyboard (Google Pinyin input) because GBoard is incredibly annoying not having functions I rely on and causing problems on here … it was not any better!

Let's see if it's any better after updating Chrome?

HouHowHouHowHouHowHouHowHouHowHouHowHouHowHouHow about with pinyin input? Not exactly great, oh dear. Start witaboutStarwitaboutStawitaboutStarwitaboutSta what notnopenotnope. Oh absolutely not. ← I'm leaving all that in as an extra example. And at one point it made the cursor jump to the beginning and duplicate 'update' about 10 times, no exaggeration.

Further edit: I've now tried with two other keyboards, they are both terrible to different degrees here, but they are both fine elsewhere. It is just this site with problems with keyboard apps varying from 'annoying' to 'utterly unusable'. I shall definitely have to be sticking to my phone for MSE.

Spoonie_Turtle

Spoke too soon! I thought it had been a few days since doing it but here we are. Tentatively, I think this one has resolved on my phone, actually, but it's been replaced with another glitch - if I start a new line, swipe type a word then correct it with a keyboard suggestion, the cursor jumps to just after the first letter. Which means if I continue typing without noticing or remembering this happens, I'm breaking up the word and typing within it.

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Chrome for Android, Samsung Galaxy S10+, Chrome 148.0.7778.215, Android 12; SM-G975U1 Build/SP1A.210812.016

Spoonie_Turtle

NeNew - OH DAMN I was wrong. ~sigh~

AAs I was saying. New glitch, new post: I checked on my tablet to see if the duplicated first line letters were happening. They are. So I deleted what I'd typed, and the comment box as well as usernames disappeared!

Also, what I deleted is still saved as a draft.

The info for that on my tablet:

Chrome 147.0.7727.49, Lenovo Idea Tab Android 16; TB336FU Build/BP2A.250605.031.A3

And it does it on any thread but the one from which I took the screenshot is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6672209/can-you-claim-job-seekers-allowance-every-other-6-months#latest