code editor and annoying text movements around the cursor
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Hi
I recently moved to Apple system and started to develop on Mac.
I have very annoying cursor (or text around it) behavior in Intelij IDEA. When I place the cursor inside the text it moves whole text right and adds some virtual spaces. The number of spaces depends on the type of selection. Moving cursor left and right also moves the text accordingly. It is extremely annoying as it is nearly impossible to place the cursor in the right place or select the right text (it always lands on the wrong character or selects something else). I tried to find the place where I can turn it off but I can't.
Could anybody help me with this please?
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Do you have Tools | Vim Emulator mode enabled?
If issue is different, could you provide a screenshot/screencast showing the problem? Thanks.
I don't have anything like Vim Emulator in my Tools menu so I have no clue. Searching for vim through preferences also give me nothing.
Posting screenshot with the issue will be quite hard but I try, here is the piece of type script code. Check where the semicolons are, there is no even single space there, this is how editor displays that.
Now when i click inside the text it changes like that;
Cursor is placed between 'flash' and 'message' (highlighted) words and again there is no even single space anywhere around the text or inside it.
This is extremely annoying thing.
Do you have this issue only with TypeScript file types? Does it help to disable TypeScript/JavaScript imports in File | Settings | Editor | General | Code Folding settings?
Do you have 3rd plugins installed? Please post idea.log content after IDE restart and screenshot of File | Settings | Editor | General | Code Folding settings if problem remains.