[Geany-devel] Cut line - Re: some features i would love to see optional or standard

[Thomas Martitz]

On 14.09.2009 16:45, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:04:09 +0200
> Thomas Martitz<thomas.martitz at student.HTW-Berlin.de>  wrote:
>
>    
>>>> I think that would be better as the default behavior (and hence being
>>>> in the core).
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> No I don't think so. IMHO the default functionality should work analog
>>> to the normal cut command.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>        
>> Well it would, but you'd move the cursor with the normal cut command,
>> and in that case the text buffer would be cleared in all situations :)
>>      
>
> What if you cut something then decide you just want to delete it and
> cut lines starting at the cursor? Then you'd be confused when pasting
> with extra lines at the start that you might not see (maybe you're
> cutting more than a page of lines).
>    

Everything has his pros and cons. I never used that feature anyway, but 
I think nano's behavior appeals me :) IMO confusion is not the best 
argument, if it's documented (and you get used to it anyway). I'm 
getting used to a lot of small pieces in Geany which were slightly 
confusing when I ran first into them. They aren't a big deal at all.

Best regards.
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