Strange Text Selection and Cut Behavior
Over the past year or so have been experiencing some very odd behavior over all of my Macs on varied versions of MacOS from Snow Leopard through Mavericks. The behavior is this: When I make a selection of text from a larger block and the cut that text, the same sized selection is then made just ahead of where I just cut. This behavior is far from consistent, though fairly common, and doesn't seem to be limited to any particular application. It happens in a browser, Word... anything. What is truly bizarre is that this happens on all three of my macs, one of which is a work machine that isn't even managed by me. The probem has been following me as far back as Snow Leopard. My hypothesis is that it must be some software that I am using but I after attempting various forms of process of elimination I have not been able to track it down. I believe this may be connected to a problem I am seeing in MS Office where when I want to copy a selection of text, I have to copy it twice in order for it to be put into the clipboard.
Since this is such strange and frustrating problem, I can only hope that this is something that others have experienced as well and hopefully we can try to figure out what it is that we have in common. I can only hypothesize that it is some third party software, but honestly I am not running anything that is remotely unusual.
I have gone as far as completely started fresh on my MacBook Pro with Mavericks and the only common third party software that I have installed MS Office 2010, Chrome (which I have not been using) and Dropbox. It is a long-standing mystery.
OS X Mavericks (10.9)
