Cursor off by one or more character spaces

[venkatcc]

1. Postman Version: 4.10.7
2. App (Chrome app or Mac app): Postman for Windows
3. OS details: Windows 10 Pro
4. Is the Interceptor on and enabled in the app:
5. Did you encounter this recently, or has this bug always been there: Started using this only recently and I've seen it since day 1.
6. Expected behaviour: Typed characters should be input at the cursor's position.
7. Console logs (http://blog.getpostman.com/2014/01/27/enabling-chrome-developer-tools-inside-postman/ for the Chrome App, View->Toggle Dev Tools for the Mac app):
8. Screenshots (if applicable)

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Start a POST method for some API, and click on the "Body" tab, and choose the "raw" radio-button to compose the body of the API.
2. Start typing some text, like say JSON key/value pairs.
3. The first few characters seem to be displayed as typed and the cursor position seems fine. But after a while, the cursor position is off by one or more character spaces. The behavior is very similar to what is described here for ATOM: https://discuss.atom.io/t/cursor-appears-to-be-displayed-one-character-to-the-right-of-its-actual-position/1452

A video showing the behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk5Mnl5t-S8
You'll see that when I start typing the second key/value pair, the cursor 'races' ahead from where the characters are being typed.

Note: When I tried key/value pairs of shorter lengths, I did not see this issue. Can't explain the difference in behavior.
For example, the following does not have an issue:
{"key1":"value1", "key2":"value2", "key3":"value3", "key4":"value4", "key5":"value5", "key6":"value6", "key7":"value7", "key8":"value8", "key9":"value9"}

But this does:
{"email_address":"[email protected]", "first_name":"first-name"}

[gerbal]

Seeing the same issue on Ubuntu w/ Gnome DE linux 4.13.0-36-generic / x64
Postman Version 5.5.2

[griffinwalker]

same issue on arch linux 4.15.3-2-ARCH running i3wm

[prashantagarwal]

Can you guys update to the latest Postman app (6.1.4) and see if it is happening. Thanks

[venkatcc]

I see this happening in v6.1.4 as well.

[prashantagarwal]

@venkatcc are you on Windows ?

[venkatcc]

@prashantagarwal Yes, I'm.

[freiguy1]

I'm still seeing this issue - the font being used is NOT picking up the system monospace font. The font in the editor isn't even monospace.

[venkatcc]

Issue seen in v6.2.3 as well.

[geekysrm]

Same issue on latest version
Ubuntu 18.04

[venkatcc]

The issue is still seen in v6.5.3.

Tested on Windows 10.

[surewould]

I'm seeing this in an up to date Manjaro install. 6.6.0-1 from aur/postman-bin. Previous versions had it as well.

[TCB13]

+1 on windows 10. Postman 6.7.3.

[venkatcc]

The problem exists in Postman v7.0.7 (on Windows 10) as well.

[venkatcc]

Still in v7.2.2 (on Windows 10).

[Axzc]

Solved this problem in Postman v7.6.0

[Axzc]

@venkatcc I modified the postman font, this problem is gone, on ubuntu.

[pythoneer]

Problem still exists on Version 7.8.0
linux 5.3.4-arch1-1-ARCH / x64

out of the box

@Axzc where do i change the font? I only found a setting for the font size (Settings->General->User Interface)

[yrong]

this fucking issue last for 3 years, lose patience for postman

[Axzc]

@pythoneer in /Postman/app/resources/app/js/requester.css search .editor.ace_editor

[yrong]

@Axzc modify to what?

➜  Postman-6.1.3 cat app/resources/app/js/requester.css | grep -i ".editor.ace_editor" -C 5
.editor {
  font-size: 12px;
  border: 1px solid var(--hairline-strong);
  border-radius: 3px;
  /* Search Extension Styling */ }
  .editor.ace_editor {
    font: 12px "Monaco", "Menlo", "Ubuntu Mono", "Consolas", "source-code-pro", "Cousine", monospace; }
    .editor.ace_editor .ace_gutter {
      background-color: var(--bg-secondary); }
    .editor.ace_editor .ace_content {
      background-color: var(--bg-primary); }
  .editor.empty-editor .ace_hidden-cursors {
    visibility: hidden; }
  .editor.empty-editor .ace_marker-layer .ace_active-line {
    background: transparent; }
...

➜  Postman-6.1.3 lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

➜  Postman-6.1.3 fc-list |more
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/comicbd.ttf: Comic Sans MS:style=Bold,Ne
greta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfe
t,Pogrubiony,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,Lodia
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tlwg/TlwgTypo-Bold.ttf: Tlwg Typo:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Serif:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/uming.ttc: AR PL UMing TW MBE:style=Light
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-kalapi/Kalapi.ttf: Kalapi:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-gujr-extra/Rekha.ttf: Rekha:style=Medium
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tlwg/TlwgTypewriter-BoldOblique.ttf: Tlwg Typewriter:s
tyle=Bold Oblique
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/UbuntuMono-RI.ttf: Ubuntu Mono:style=Italic

[Axzc]

@yrong change to the appropriate font
This is my setting in ubuntu18.04
.editor.ace_editor {
font: 12px "Ubuntu Mono", "Menlo", "Monaco", "Consolas","source-code-pro", "Cousine", monospace, monospace; }

[yrong]

@Axzc That did work and Thanks. My previous assumption is that if any font exists in fc list should work and seems not, need to keep Ubuntu Mono first

[venkatcc]

Postman v7.10.0 on Windows 10 still has this issue.

[a85]

Closing this issue as we haven't been able to replicate this. Please open a new issue with replication steps if needed.

[pythoneer]

I investigated this problem a little bit deeper and it looks like that in my case the problem stems from a bug in the noto font configuration on arch i have installed on my system https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/1128 also https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64083

[yrong]

@a85 have you ever read previous discussion? how dare you say unable to replicate? The root cause is that default font configuration is not proper in most linux releases.

 font: 12px "Monaco", "Menlo", "Ubuntu Mono", "Consolas", "source-code-pro", "Cousine", monospace, monospace; }

[venkatcc]

I can reproduce this every time. I'm on Windows 10, and earlier suggestions to mess around with default font configuration on Linux to get this working right are not applicable on Windows (since I couldn't find the equivalent configuration files or the equivalent configuration settings).

Today, I removed my 7.10.0 installation and installed 7.12.0 and I still see the issue. I've attached a video showing the problem. As I start typing the second key-value pair, you can see the cursor moving ahead, and this makes any typing impossible. If you'd like to repoduce, I suggest trying the exact length strings I'm using in the video demonstration. Shorter length key-value pairs may not exhibit the problem. And other length pairs may also exhibit the problem, but I've been testing with this pair because I know this always exhibits the problem.
CursorOff.zip

[ubuntu2204]

The  reason is postman cannot find font.so use another one,but their weight is different.I had install font Menlo-Regular.ttf and Monaco-Linux.ttf.At last It works.

[pythoneer]

looks like even the workaround from @Axzc does not work anymore in 7.20.1

[renyuntao]

Same issue on latest version
Ubuntu 18.04

[pankajk07]

This has been fixed as part of v7.26. Please update your app and try it out.

[pythoneer]

@pankajk07 can confirm, this fixed it for me – thank you very much to all involved!

[venkatcc]

Yes!! It indeed is fixed!! Thanks.

[Sebastian23]

It still reproduces on v9.1.1 (Windows 10)

[paramothers]

Still it is there, in chromeos, chrome browser only.
Brave browser doesnot have this cursor problem

[gkxk]

@Sebastian23 same issue here(win10, v9.5.0)
Setting -> General -> Font-family
change from "IBMPlexMono, 'Courier New', monospace" to "'Courier New', monospace".
this fixed the problem for me

[Sebastian23]

This actually works. Thanks a lot! :)

[carsonsaldanha]

@Sebastian23 same issue here(win10, v9.5.0) Setting -> General -> Font-family change from "IBMPlexMono, 'Courier New', monospace" to "'Courier New', monospace". this fixed the problem for me

Thank you! This worked for me on ChromeOS.