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Since I started using 8.5.1 the Source editor randomly pops to the top of the editor. I don’t know what’s going on to do it, but it happens whether DDE has focus or not, so it smacks of some (more) broken automagic running in the background. So far it’s never done that while I’m actively typing, but it has done it on save, and it has done it while DDE is simply sitting there unused.
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It appears to happen on a “repaint” for lack of a better description. For instance, while DDE is just sitting there (like when I’m typing this post), it intermittently “flashes”, like it’s repainting the entire set of DDE windows/panels/etc. It won’t pop back to the top until it “flashes”, but it doesn’t pop back to the top every time it “flashes”, it does so intermittently. DDE also “flashes” on save, making me believe it’s the same code that’s running.
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To reiterate, this happens randomly, and not too frequently. I can save over and over (just did) and nothing untoward happens. Yet I have seen it pop to the top of the Source editor on save.
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Since it’s random and completely out of my control I cannot provide steps to reproduce. I know these things are incredibly difficult to pin down, but there it is. I don’t recall R8.5 or 8.5FP1 ever doing either the “flash” thing, or moving the Source editor to the top of the page.
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While I’ve been typing this DDE has “flashed” about five times and, by happenstance, has never reset the Source editor position.
Thanks for your time…