[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136687] New: Order of characters typed into comments scrambled

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136687

            Bug ID: 136687
           Summary: Order of characters typed into comments scrambled
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.4.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: luke.kendall at gmail.com

Created attachment 165411
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=165411&action=edit
Screenshot of bug and sample document

I was typing text into a comment in a document that has many. Overall the
Writer performance is fine, even so. But when typing into a comment it's easy
to type fast enough that the order of the characters is jumbled.  I think all
the characters appear, but not in correct order.  I did a few tests typing
progressively slower and the problem progressively less.

Clearly, Writer is not buffering input characters correctly. It's like
competing threads are reading them. I can't think of any other way the
characters could be so completely jumbled.

See attached screenshot and sample (obfuscated) document.  The specific comment
appears on page 52 (relative to document start, not page number).

I had to try three times to obfuscate the document - writer appeared to lock
up. After copying the file to a separate computer (on Windows, if that matters)
and an older version of LibreOffice, when I did the global find and replace
that version warned me it would take a long time with Record Changes on but
Show Changes off.

So a key part of the problem with the jumbled characters (related to Writer's
sluggish responsiveness) may be that I had Show changes turned off but still
had Record Changes enabled.

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