Mail editing problem

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Just filed another Apple feedback on editing body text in Apple Mail in Sequoia:

“Select two words in a sentence and move them to another place in the sentence – if you drop the text just behind a word it works as expected, but if you drop the text just before a word the text is included after the first letter in that word. If you drag the text again to make it land at the correct place, then all the text of the paragraph is copied (without being selected) and dropped as extra text in the paragraph doubling the text of the paragraph. Ok … not the way it is supposed to work.”

Anyone seeing similar things here? Maybe related to not using default fonts perhaps?

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Worked fine for me with both default and non-default fonts.

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The first thing (dropping text just before the first letter in a word and having it appear after the first letter rather than before) I can confirm. The second part did not happen to me - it just moved the selected text before the letter and everything was normal.

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Testing again here, and yes – could only make the first thing happen again. One detail though was wrong when moving it again to the correct position – a space was added (so got double-space after the word). So not quite as bad as it looked here at first, but it looks like something they should look into. Will test on some more computers when I have a chance.

Actually the same thing happen here when writing this comment in Safari.
Actually the same happen here wthinghen writing this comment in Safari. (But moving back the text ‘thing’ doesn’t give me double-space after the word, but also no space before it.)

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This is just not something I ever do with the mouse/trackpad. If I am moving text, I highlight it, Cmd-X to cut, move the cursor, Cmd-V to paste. So if this was happening with older versions of macOS - I have no idea. (It doesn’t happen with Cmd-V - move the cursor to the front of a word, Cmd-V, it pastes in properly.)

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Here is an example from the mail where I had the second problem and one that I can repeat:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/og4917gck74ndzp7m2w64/moving-text-in-mail.mov?rlkey=kjox8v8gsl4wy5yg3srtihw2u&dl=0

and a link for the first problem:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/um4v2aandjqhkfce4l0py/moving-text-in-mail2.mov?rlkey=z0rl0rm9fiq9uztx6usvhq6fc&dl=0

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Interestingly, with a larger font size there was no problem with placement of the text by itself (the first problem) – maybe they use Apple “Intelligence” for the editing ;-).

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But drag n drop is what distinguish Mac users from Windows users! :slight_smile: (Only testing Sequioa 15.0 now.)