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You *must* update the documentation to match, making sure you catch all places where such a change might impact.
sure! doc will be my last commit before the pull request
Thats what we all say :)
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The multiple selection hard-coded binding (Ctrl+Alt) is "shadowed" by the rectangular selection binding (Ctrl). So the only way I found to make multiple selection + rectangular selection to work is to change the binding for the rect selection.
With the patch applied you can make rectangular selection with "Super" and multiple selections with "Ctrl+Alt".
Probably you will not like the binding change (I don't like to change it, I'm quite used to use Ctr for rect selections) so I'm searching another way to solve the binding conflict... suggestions are welcome
As a GTK app Geany normally tries to follow the Gnome HIG http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/2.32/hig-book.html#input-mouse section 10.1.2.
This specifies ctrl-click as the extend selection input, and it is in the majority of applications. So despite it having been a Geany setting for a long while, I think it should be changed now that multiple selection is going to be supported.
Any suggestions for a replacement for the go to definition binding?
this binding issue is driving me crazy!! I don't have a good solution :/ The situation is:
Ctrl+Alt+click(or drag) -> multiple selections (badly hardcoded in scintilla)
Also ctrl-shift-click or drag extends the rectangular selection
These roughly match the standard definitions of bounding box select actions and make sense.
Ctrl+click -> goto definition
Which is badly hard coded at src/editor.c:319
Note that it also does "goto matching brace" if the click isn't on an identifier.
This is bad practice as we are now finding. Goto brace has a default keybinding and goto tag can have one. They should not be hard coded to mouse operations. Although this means the user now needs two actions not one, the current usage is non-standard and is blocking the implementation of the standard action. This action should be removed.
the bind for rectangular selection is strange (at least on my Linux Mint+E17 environment), should be Ctrl+drag, but I can make rect selection only
That is because the code mentioned above overrides it, performing the goto action on ctrl+mouse down before it even sees the drag.
[...]> with Ctr+Alt+drag :/
This key can be changed in scintilla with the api: SSM(sci, SCI_SETRECTANGULARSELECTIONMODIFIER, SCMOD_SUPER, 0); SCMOD can be CTRL, ALT or SUPER
the only way I found to make both rectangular and multiple selections, is to set multiple to Super and thus:
Ctrl+Alt+click(or drag) -> multiple selections Ctrl+click -> goto definition Super+drag -> rectangular selection
I don't like to use the Super key, and also smell some possible platform difference around.
As I said above we should change the deviant Geany ctrl+click behavior so the super isn't necessary. I guess this is going to provoke some discussion so I'll start a new thread and maybe you should wait to see the outcome of that.
Cheers Lex
btw, thanks for taking the time to follow this issue...and give a try at the 'supersnip' branch, it's amazing! :D
PS can't try it at the moment, all comments "by inspection".