[scribus] Ctrl X twice kills Scribus

[Margaret and George McIntosh]

On 17 Dec 2010 at 16:56, Gregory Pittman wrote:

> On 12/17/2010 04:29 PM, Margaret and George McIntosh wrote:
> > On 17 Dec 2010 at 15:10, Tom Connolly wrote:
> >
> >> While I am in the edit text mode, if I use Ctrl X to delete
> some
> >> copy, then
> >> do it again to delete more copy, the program shuts down
> immediately
> >> without
> >> a prompt to save and without saving what's being edited. This
> >> happened to me
> >> twice before I knew what hit me. I am able to reproduce this.
> >> Windows Vista, plenty ram. 1.3.9.
> >> Tom Connolly
> >
> > Tom, I made a new text frame, typed in some text, then used Ctrl X
> several times to
> > delete text  and it worked correctly. I then made 2 frames and
> used Ctrl X to delete
> > each. Worked correctly again.
> > Win 7  x64.
> 
> What I have subsequently found is that the key thing seems to be
> when 
> you finally highlight all the remaining text in the frame. Happened
> both 
> with text I had manually entered or with sample text.
> 
> Does not happen in Linux (Fedora 14), nor could I see it in 1.3.3.14
> on XP.
> 
> I'm using a 1.3.9svn, but since the issue doesn't seem to have been
> reported, probably still exists.
> 
> Greg

Ok, tried again and confirmed that it crashed when the remaining text in the frame 
was deleted in Story Editor. Happened to be on the third use  of Crtl X.

Didn't happen in edit mode from the "Edit contents of Frame" icon.

V 1.3.9
Win 7 x64

George