[Lazarus] Possible bug in TEdit, can somebody reproduce this?

[Sven Barth]

It's not reproduceable on ArchLinux i386 with GTK+ 2.22.1 using Lazarus 
0.9.31 r30449 (compiled with 2.4.2).

On 24.04.2011 01:01, Bernd wrote:
> Linux GTK2
>
> Before I file a bug, please somebody try and confirm:
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1: put a TEdit onto a form and compile and run the application
> (or alternatively just open one of the IDE's dialogs which contains a
> TEdit like for example refactor ->  rename)
>
> 2. write some text into it and then select a few characters in the
> middle of the word. For example I will write the text
> "TFooBar" into the TEdit and then select the three letters "Foo".
> Then press any (printable) key.
>
> 3: I expect it to look like this (I have pressed X and the | marks the
> position of the caret), this is what I expect:
> TX|Bar
>
> 4. And this is what happens:
> TBX|ar
>
> It removes the "Foo" as expected but then jumps over the B and inserts after it.
>
> This is very annoying, its already slowly starting to influence the
> way I edit text in all other applications. Can somebody confirm this
> or is this again due to my old GTK2 version (GTK2 itself and pure GTK2
> applications behave correctly). It does not happen in a combobox and
> also not in a TMemo, only in a TEdit. It used to work some months ago
> with the same GTK version, unfortunately I cannot say exactly which
> revision broke it, I did not update and use it for a few months, only
> started updating last few days again.
>
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