Why is my cursor in the wrong place?

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Why is my cursor in the wrong place?

In both Mail and Safari, if I type text and then go back to edit it, my editing does not take place in the spot where I place my cursor, but often 4 or 5 characters behind (even though the cursor is still in the right place). I had this problem in Yosemite in Mail, but this is the first time I've noticed it in Safari as well.

This does not occur in all situations. For example, my editing works perfectly here, but if I open another tab and post something in Facebook, it will be off.

Not sure if it has something to do with the default font or character encoding or what, but it's eating up time! Thanks for any help. - Jay

This is on a brand-new Macbook Pro 13" with retina and dual displays.

Mac OS X (10.1)

Posted on Jan 19, 2016 2:41 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 6, 2016 3:40 PM in response to jscheuerle

I have this problem too. Here is a video: http://screencast.com/t/WBJtgJUm

It has been going on now for about a year on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

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Answer 2

Rysz

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Sep 6, 2016 5:36 PM in response to jscheuerle

Do you have any system or keyboard extensions installed that might cause this?

Try Safe Boot mode by holding down the Shift key at startup. Safe Boot is quite slow because the OS performs some cleanup and verification tasks, so give it time. After you're completely logged in, restart normally.

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Answer 3

Sep 6, 2016 7:19 PM in response to Rysz

I found on another site a possible solution. delete the com.apple.mail.plist file. I think it is working. It may have to do with older versions of mail that were not UTF-8 and perhaps with saved signatures with older text types.

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Answer 4

Sep 7, 2016 5:30 AM in response to jscheuerle

Try these solutions... the first did not work for me. I deleted plist, but changing default fonts may work as well for mail and signatures from old coding... UTF-8 now needed. https://www.macissues.com/2014/12/15/fix-character-typing-problems-in-os-x-mail/

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