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(On OSX with a fresh dev build as of September 4th) While editing, I suddenly can't insert a ) in the editor. I type ) repeatedly, and it inserts a space instead! This happened yesterday too. I was wondering if this perhaps is related to bracket matching or something else. In the end I had to exit the IDE, edit the file with a plain editor to get it back to what I want. I will attach the source file where I cannot insert a ). Go to this line: if (p.getLookup().lookup(org.netbeans.modules.gsfpath.spi.classpath.ClassPathProvider.class) == null and try to insert a ) on the right, right after "null". For me, that just moves the caret instead!
Created attachment 69075 [details] Source file which exposes the problem
Adjusting priority - I at first thought my file had gotten corrupted, but it had not - it seems to be limited to bracket matching on the ). I was able to cut & paste a ) from elsewhere in the document and that succeeded. Still, this is a must-fix-for-6.5.
If it happens to everyone, this is probably a P1...
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 146139 ***