Unable to place cursor close to beginning of line

[ruedigerkupper]

Device: hammerhead
Version: OTA-4

While typing a message I am unable to place the cursor at the first 3 to 4 characters in any line. I have no problem at all placing it at a later point, but not close to the start.

This does not occur in other apps (like in the browser app I am typing right now). And it is no hardware issue with my device, since it also appears in landscape mode where the left edge of the entry field is located at the middle of the screen. It must be a software issue.

[advocatux]

You can't place the cursor tapping but you can place it using the keyboard in joystick mode or whatever is that mode called (press&hold space bar, the keyboard goes blank, move the cursor like a joystick)

[ruedigerkupper]

That's right and that's how I do it currently. But it is certainly not by intention that you can't place the cursor here?

[ruedigerkupper]

@advocatux
But that means you confirm this bug? On which device and build?

[advocatux]

Hmm interesting, today I can place the cursor tapping at the beginning of the line both in krillin & hammerhead, both running xenial devel up to date, but yesterday I couldn't do it.

The intriguing part is that hammerhead has been updated today but krillin has not.

Anyway the tapping to put the cursor at the beginning works pretty unreliable and erratic. Afaik it has been always that way, even in vivid.

More than a bug this is a little annoyance to me.

[ruedigerkupper]

Yes, it probably was there from the beginning. I never paid much attention, but the more often you type messages, the more annoying it gets.
Does anyone have an idea what causes this problem? This is probably some standard editable field (sorry, I'm not so much in mobile programming). It strikes me as very strange that it has problems with cursor positioning? If so, this will probably occur elsewhere?