#15 Ctrl + Drag'n'Drop should copy text

[Matthew Thornley]

Currently, the user can set the "Drag and Drop Text
Mode" to be Cut or Copy. It would be much more
convenient to automatically copy the text when the Ctrl
key is being held down while dropping. If Ctrl is not
being held down, then the text should be cut.

[Daniel Pozmanter]

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This is done for the next version. (I still have some work
to do before release).

I considered making the modifier key a pref, but that turned
out to be quite messy. So it is Control. You can choose
the default behaviour in prefs (Cut or Copy), and the other
behaviour will be used when Control is down.

[Matthew Thornley]

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Okay, glad hear that. I assume that the need for the extra
complexity is due to different conventions on different
platforms. On Windows it would be fine to have Ctrl+drop do
a copy and for there to be no Drag And Drop preferences. You
are sure to hear from a number of confused Windows users who
haven't discovered the Drag And Drop preferences.

[Daniel Pozmanter]

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The default behaviour will be cut, and ctrl+drop does a
copy. If people want to change that, they can, but users
who don't look at the prefs will find it works just as you
specified.

[Matthew Thornley]

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Fresh out of the box, the default Drag And Drop Mode is
"Drag: Files Only, Drop: Files and Text". In this mode,
dragging text from within DrPython does nothing, which
forces the user to modify Preferences to get DrPython to
behave as one would expect an editor to behave (at least on
Windows). Furthermore, the default Drag and Drop Text Mode
is "Copy", so it also has to be changed to get the expected
behaviour. I'm glad that DrPython can be configured to
behave as I want it, but I'm curious what the rational for
all this complexity is.

BTW, when text is being dragged, the cursor should be set to
the current mouse position so that the user can tell where
the text will be dropped. Compare with SciTE to see what I mean.

[Daniel Pozmanter]

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I have this set by default, because I have found drag and
drop in a text editor for programs to be potentially very
confusing, especially for new users. However, as with all
such options, I am open to discussion on this. So I will
start a thread in the forum, and see what people think the
default should be.