TextEdit Behaving Odd on Big Sur Update

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Created Nov ’20

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Hi,

I'm an avid user of TextEdit to keep track of my thoughts and To-Do's through my work day. The result is, I end up with a fairly long text file, but not big on size in terms of storage.

After updating to Big Sur 11.0.1, I'm noticing an odd behaviour.

When every I press [Delete] more than thrice, the scroll bar jumps to the top of the text, i.e. the first line in the text file. This is very frustrating, especially, when you have lot of text and it scrolls all the way to the top.

The only solution I have found is to press [Delete] slowly (may be one character per second) to avoid the scroll bar jumping to the first line of the text file.

Also noticed, it does not happen in a full sentence, but only when when there's a short word and a line break [Enter] above and below the word.

I'm continuing with the same file I had saved on Catalina and never had this issue.

Looks like a bug to me.

[PS: I am a user experience designer, not a developer and only have minimal knowledge of coding. ]

Thanks,
Anish

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Answer 1

Anish81 OP

Nov ’20

Sample text file to reproduce the bug. Paste the text below in TextEdit on Big Sur. Scroll down a bit, preferably below the first page fold and try deleting a sentence by first selecting it and then hitting [Delete]; the scroll bar will go to the top of the text file.

Buy Milk
Walk The Dog
Refuel The Car

Buy Groceries
Order iPhone 12
Update MacBook Pro to Big Sur

Check MacBook Air Battery
Pay Mobile Bill
Pay Netflix

Upgrade Apple Music Plan
Add Jonathan to Apple Music Family Plan
Call Martha

Buy Milk
Walk The Dog
Refuel The Car

Buy Groceries
Order iPhone 12
Update MacBook Pro to Big Sur

Check MacBook Air Battery
Pay Mobile Bill
Pay Netflix

Upgrade Apple Music Plan
Add Jonathan to Apple Music Family Plan
Call Martha

Buy Milk
Walk The Dog
Refuel The Car

Buy Groceries
Order iPhone 12
Update MacBook Pro to Big Sur

Check MacBook Air Battery
Pay Mobile Bill
Pay Netflix

Upgrade Apple Music Plan
Add Jonathan to Apple Music Family Plan
Call Martha

Buy Milk
Walk The Dog
Refuel The Car

Buy Groceries
Order iPhone 12
Update MacBook Pro to Big Sur

Check MacBook Air Battery
Pay Mobile Bill
Pay Netflix

Upgrade Apple Music Plan
Add Jonathan to Apple Music Family Plan
Call Martha

Buy Milk
Walk The Dog
Refuel The Car

Buy Groceries
Order iPhone 12
Update MacBook Pro to Big Sur

Check MacBook Air Battery
Pay Mobile Bill
Pay Netflix

Upgrade Apple Music Plan
Add Jonathan to Apple Music Family Plan
Call Martha

Thanks,
Anish

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Answer 2

ckruse OP

Nov ’20

I'm having similar problems. Pasting text can cause scrolling to jump, the last line of the document is extends below the window by default, as well as some other odd line handling behavior.

Introduced after upgrading to Big Sur.

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Answer 3

kgapple OP

Nov ’20

I have the same issue since upgrading to Big Sur. Very annoying.

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Answer 4

davidfrahm OP

Nov ’20

1 Confirmed same (very annoying) behavior caused by Big Sur upgrade.

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Answer 5

gidyn OP

Nov ’20

I'm hitting a variation of this. Even a single delete in the top line can make the cursor jump to the end of the file, but it's erratic, I haven't found a pattern.

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JasonJunker OP

Nov ’20

Same here. I use TextEdit for Lego set inventory, and those files get to be pretty long too. The only things I've seen that keeps the file from jumping around is to select the text I want to delete and hit RETURN instead of delete. Best workaround I've found so far. The application also highlights the text lines differently than it did prior to the update.

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uberknot OP

Nov ’20

I'm also experiencing this problem and I'm also an avid user of TextEdit. Pasting text also causes scroll to top. Very annoying. Upgraded to Big Sur on a 2016 MacBook Pro.

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Answer 8

webedc OP

Nov ’20

I run into the same problem too! Upgraded to Big Sur on a MacBook Pro 2016 15".

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Answer 9

kreutz OP

Nov ’20

I confirm this bug upon upgrading from Catalina to Big Sur. It's crazy annoying. Hitting Return instead of Delete seems to me the best solution. The "slow Delete" also works, but risks a repetitive Delete that erases more than you intended. One hopes that Apple will quickly fix this regression.

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Answer 10

Sweelin OP

Nov ’20

Yes the bug exists. It's driving me insane. Please fix it.

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Answer 11

meo_bogliolo OP

Nov ’20

I had the very same problem after the upgrade to Bug Sur... (sorry for the laspus ;-)

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Answer 12

faxtbcp OP

Nov ’20

I use TextEdit for my daily log of work completed. The file does get long, as I rotate once a year.
Pasting text in scrolls me to the top of the screen. My cursor is still in place so pressing down arrow will scroll me back - but - This is extremely disconcerting.

Selecting text does not show the exact selection, it is one character off to the left.

Typing becomes extremely labored - as if there are many calculations taking place in-between each character.

I didn't have any of these issues before installing Big Sur.

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Answer 13

ymteo98 OP

Nov ’20

This issue happens not only when deleting a sentence, but also while removing an empty line in the middle or bottom of the page. Same bug also goes to plaintext editing :(

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Answer 14

GeorgeZhang OP

Nov ’20

Apple, please fix this bug!!!

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Answer 15

Troc OP

Nov ’20

Oh my gosh ... I thought I was the only one. So glad to see that's not the case. I mean, I wish it wasn't a bug, but glad it isn't just my computer since I just bought it brand new ~2 months ago. I sure hope Apple comes up with a fix for this ASAP; I use TextEdit for A LOT of things ... and need it to be working like it should, not with all of these bug issues which are highly annoying, disconcerting, aggravating and waste time. Thank you.

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