Modifying one QTextCursor affects all other QTextCursors for that document

Drew W

The QTextCursor documentation implies that each cursor is independent, but when I set the position of one cursor it moves all cursors for the document.

// cursors is of type QList<QTextCursor>
// startBlock/endBlock are of type QTextBlock
// The following code runs in a loop
...
QTextCursor cursor(m_plainTextEdit->document());
cursor.setPosition(startBlock.position(), QTextCursor::MoveAnchor);
cursor.setPosition(endBlock.position() + endBlock.length() - 1, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor);

qDebug() << "Created cursor at " << cursor.position() << " with first cursor ending at " << (cursors.isEmpty() ? -1 : cursors.front().position());
cursors.append(cursor);
...

Output:
1568832163.97167,2694,6 QT Debug: Created cursor at 93 with first cursor ending at -1
1568832163.97266,2694,6 QT Debug: Created cursor at 130 with first cursor ending at 130
1568832163.97564,2694,6 QT Debug: Created cursor at 953 with first cursor ending at 953
1568832163.97663,2694,6 QT Debug: Created cursor at 1479 with first cursor ending at 1479
1568832163.97961,2694,6 QT Debug: Created cursor at 2464 with first cursor ending at 2464

I would expect every log message except the first to say the first cursor's position is 93, but it's whatever I moved the new cursor's position to this iteration. Am I doing something wrong, or is this intended behavior?

Drew W

It looks like the cause is appending text in each iteration. The last cursor is at the end of the file, so Qt extends its selection as more text is added.