Irwin Jungreis added the comment:
I have reopened this issue because there are still cases where it does not
work. I installed 8.5.13 and the IDLE patch as suggested. That fixed the
particular case that I had used to demonstrate the problem (a file containing
just two characters M1). However
Irwin Jungreis added the comment:
The output of the commands you suggested is below. I've attached a short video
showing the problem (listen for the mouse clicks). I also tried with a variety
of fonts (proportional and fixed) and font sizes, both bold and not bold, and
all had the
New submission from Irwin Jungreis:
Often, when selecting text in IDLE, the first character of the selected region
does not get selected. The problem occurs because sometimes, not always, when
clicking on the left half of a character the insertion point gets put after the
character, while
