Yes, I sent the patch in, but the response I got from Scintilla was:
"There's no visual indication that there is a multiline caret."
which is true because a zero-width rectangle has no border showing that it exists. If a selection rectangle had a border... I haven't had time to look into that yet. But for me, since I just made the selection, when I type I know what to expect, and any motion key stops the process cleanly.
Anyway, As a result I must do it myself. If there were enough people interested (I have some threads from other projects where people want the function) maybe a case could be made to Scintilla to include it anyway?
If you want to check it out, go to http://www.arrowtwins.com and look for the Editor.cxx link.
chuck
ps. Thanks for the cygwin tips.
Enrico Tröger wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:17:18 -0700, chuck ctl@arrowtwins.com wrote:
I build Geany for both Windows and Linux. 2 reasons I build my own:
- I like being current, and
- I like (and need) column-mode editing and must apply my
patch to scintilla to make that happen.
Did you send this patch upstream? Maybe it will be applied.