Incorrect text behaviour on single line input field

[ Note - this is reported for single-line field - this doesn’t mean it’s different for multi-lin, just that I haven’t tried that yet :-]

The behaviour on clicking into a single-line field is incorrect (or at least, non-standard for Mac).

  1. Clicking within the field positions the input cursor at the start of the field, rather than at the clicked position.

  2. A subsequent (immediate) click then positions the input cursor properly.
    BUT - moving the mouse then switches the input cursor back to the start ?!?

  3. Holding down ‘shift’ while moving input cursor with the arrow-keys does not always select the traversed text - sometimes it does, but not always. A similar ‘sometimes but not always’ occurs for shift-clicking within the text - simetimes it selects the intervening text, not always.

  4. extending the selection is different from Mac standard.

  • double click on a word in the middle of the text - it is selected.
  • then shift-click to the right - selection extends from original word to include new position
  • shift-click to the left - selection extends from the rightmost all the way back to the new leftmost clicked position (Mac standard would be to select from the originally selected word to the new leftmost).
  1. cmd-Y appears to do a “paste” command.