RE: [ jEdit-users ] shift-arrow misbehaviour

[Robert W. V. <bob...@ve...>]

>I just checked with kedit and vim, and they all follow the same
>principle as jedit.

Some editors do, some do not.  Seems like a lot do, comparatively.  However,
I personally suspect that, at least in many cases, this is simply because
the authors don't consider the options, rather than because jEdit's way is
somehow being better (or even "standard").

-----Original Message-----
From: jed...@li...
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Bhattacharya
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:58 AM
To: Chris Petersen
Cc: jedit-users
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] shift-arrow misbehaviour


Chris Petersen wrote:
> The "problem" centers around what happens when you shift-arrow (this
> moves the cursor and also "drags" a selection behind it), and how the
> column memory is handled.  Currently, jEdit remembers the same column,
> regardless of whether you're just using the arrow keys to move the
> cursor, of if you are holding down shift to drag a selection, too.  Some
> people (myself included) have suggested that the shift-arrow is a
> completely separate function and should thus have its own column memory.
>
> example:  (cursor at | )
>
> 123
> 1234|5
>
> press up once, then hold shift and press "down" -- you will notice that
> "1234" is selected", instead of selecting "123" to match where the
> selection started.
>

Ok. yes. I see that now. So what you are saying is that if we consider
movement and selection as two different types of operations, as soon as we
switch from one type of operation to the other, the column value should be
reset.

I personally agree with that in principle.

Even though I just checked with kedit and vim, and they all follow the same
principle as jedit.

- Sandip


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