Vincent Woo

:thumbsup: I am also interested in this.

Yeah, this old thing is busted. Let me take a crack to see if I can't get it at least barely functional. Sorry bout that.

This doesn't appear to happen for me. Can you give more detail on how to repro?

Ah. I can't test right now but my hunch is this happens in rich-text mode only. Can you confirm that?

Yeah, Firepad definitely doesn't have support for multisegment selection at this time. It'd be a fairly involved change - the network serialization of cursor positions would have to evolve. This...

It's okay. I don't believe this one will make it in anytime soon - it's fairly tricky. Thanks for raising the issue though.

related: 

gist 404s! Can you make a JSFiddle?

Another simple-ish optimization would be to always load, initially, the latest checkpoint AND last 100 edits. Right now the latter blocks on the former.

I see this error occasionally, too, but have never been able to reliably reproduce it. It does worry me, a bit.