Utils: fix selectAt used with invisible blocks

Using QTextCursor::movePosition with QTextCursor::NextBlock seems to
jump over invisible blocks. Use setPosition instead.

Change-Id: I3271fb8570678ef6f09141032948dedee308e20c
Fixes: QTCREATORBUG-24019
Reviewed-by: Christian Kandeler <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christian Stenger <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/libs/utils/textutils.cpp b/src/libs/utils/textutils.cpp
index bc818677686..3b475aef3cd 100644
--- a/src/libs/utils/textutils.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/utils/textutils.cpp
@@ -88,11 +88,9 @@ QTextCursor selectAt(QTextCursor textCursor, int line, int column, uint length)
     if (column < 1)
         column = 1;
 
-    textCursor.setPosition(0);
-    textCursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextBlock, QTextCursor::MoveAnchor, line - 1);
-    textCursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter,QTextCursor::MoveAnchor, column  + length - 1 );
-
-    textCursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::PreviousCharacter,QTextCursor::KeepAnchor, length);
+    const int anchorPosition = positionInText(textCursor.document(), line, column + length);
+    textCursor.setPosition(anchorPosition);
+    textCursor.setPosition(anchorPosition - length, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor);
 
     return textCursor;
 }