The only other social media site I go to is Facebook.. and yes my posts are much shorter there.. happy birthday that kind of stuff.. so not sure what the cause is ..

It's definitely frustrating.

good to know..

Try getting a new copy of your browser.
Oh, and check for viruses, malware, in case there's a key logger in town.

No browser setting on earth that I have ever seen will do this.


I use a very high tech extension that mirrors my typing (I am doing it right now) in a text editor (on a desktop system)
Even keymapping (again, very high-tech) would be pressed to do that --- i.e. "delete to end of line"
These are un-recommended for "Normal" people.
I ain't one.

Cheers, and good luck.

from typing too fast.. and believe me I am a fast typer I been playing around here, and trying to see what causes my cursor to jump back.. and I think it is me hitting a key or the space bar too fast.. I just did it typing this post to you.. I hit my space bar three times and my cursor jumped back.. it looks to be the issue of the typist and not DU.. :

What system are you on?

I vaguely recall shortcuts similar to "hit this key three times" ... not "knock three times" .... to kick in some magic assistive whatever.

Only other imaginable thing(s) might be
Browser is slow and you are overrunning its text buffer (wild guess)
You have some extension installed, like an "abbreviation" one
You just have some bogus extension installed.
That said, I load up on them and never saw such.

Can you try another browser? I sometimes switch between safari and Firefox (I ditched Opera when all my settings disappeared after an "auto update" ) The auto-pager extension works on Firefox, and there are times that it saves be hours (OK, many minutes)

That should eliminate the browser as an issue.

... and then a bunch of text gets highlighted (like ctrl-A) but another key gets hit almost immediately (touch typing) and that makes all the text disappear.

It may happen only on DU because I think the type-in window is custom made and is ultra responsive.

and my cursor jumped back.. I have had this lap top for a few months ..but I think all the posts that I have been doing in here lately shows that this is a more sensitive machine than the old laptop

HTH

Its the user who has issues apparently

LET THE GOOD FEELINGS ROLL!

Thank goodness that I remind myself DON'T OVERTHINK IT.

Much happy typing!



Enjoy!!

BUT NOT AT THE COMPUTER.

Especially when they're someone else's problems.

Double happiness there.

CIAO