BUG cursor jumping to mail body when typing recipient mail address

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Thibault Roulet

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Jan 14, 2020, 1:16:58 AM1/14/20
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Hi all,

Small but annoying bug in version 5.6
Sometimes, when writing the recipient address in a new message, the cursor jumps by itself in the body section of the mail, leaving the address incomplete with a red exclamation mark telling me the address could not be parsed.

Thanks in advance

David W. Jones

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Jan 14, 2020, 2:43:25 AM1/14/20
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Hmm. Haven't had that happen here unless I accidentally tap Enter, a tab, or accidentally tap in the body.

K-9 5.6 on Android 7.

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Thibault Roulet

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Jan 14, 2020, 2:52:15 AM1/14/20
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I think I found the way to reproduce it.

Start typing an address, K9 will propose a list of known addresses but then when the next letter you type doesn't match any of those addresses, it jumps out.

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David W. Jones

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Jan 14, 2020, 3:05:32 AM1/14/20
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On January 13, 2020 9:52:11 PM HST, Thibault Roulet <t...@omch.ch> wrote:
>I think I found the way to reproduce it.
>
>Start typing an address, K9 will propose a list of known addresses but
>then when the next letter you type doesn't match any of those
>addresses,
>it jumps out.
>
>
>On 1/14/20 8:43 AM, David W. Jones wrote:
>> On January 13, 2020 8:16:58 PM HST, Thibault Roulet
>> <darx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Small but annoying bug in version 5.6
>> Sometimes, when writing the recipient address in a new message,
>> the cursor jumps by itself in the body section of the mail,
>> leaving the address incomplete with a red exclamation mark
>telling
>> me the address could not be parsed.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> Hmm. Haven't had that happen here unless I accidentally tap Enter, a
>> tab, or accidentally tap in the body.
>>
>> K-9 5.6 on Android 7.
Thanks, Thibault. I believe it's happening on your installation. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it here with either the Samsung Keyboard or the Graffiti Pro Keyboard I usually use.

I have word suggestions/predictive text turned off. Could that feature be triggering this behavior?

David W. Jones

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Jan 16, 2020, 4:31:30 AM1/16/20
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Sorry, Thibault. I have no idea. Putting this back onto the K-9 list to
widen the pool of knowledgeable people.

Also, which version of Android are you using? My tablet's only on
Android 7. Maybe the issue is connected with a newer Android than mine.

On 1/13/20 10:23 PM, Thibault Roulet wrote:
> That's weird. I tried with the classic gboard and swift keyboard and
> same issue.
>
> On gboard config, I disabled more less everything about auto correction
> and prediction.
>
> Is there a way in K-9 to remove the addresses proposition?
>
> Thibault

Thibault Roulet

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Jan 16, 2020, 4:49:56 AM1/16/20
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No worries. The phone is running 8.1.0 patch level: August 5 2019

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