I'm experiencing a recurring issue in the RStudio IDE: when scrolling gently upward with a touchpad in the Source pane, the view often jumps to an unrelated section of the document—without any click or deliberate action.
Similar issues (or the same) have been mentioned in the RStudio Community forums:
https://forum.posit.co/t/scrolling-jumps-in-source-pain-on-mouseover-scrollbar/159995
But as far as I can tell, the thread was closed without a reply.
This has been happening for a long time, across multiple versions. It would be great if this could be fixed, as it makes code editing very uncomfortable and disruptive.
The issue occurs intermittently and does not always follow the same sequence of actions, so I’m unable to provide reliable steps to reproduce it.
System details:
RStudio version: 2025.05.1+513
R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11)
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS