Hi,
I'm switching from SciTE to Geany, as I feel features provided by Geany are exact what I missed in SciTE Thanks to dev team and special thanks to creator on Lua plugin, which made my transition seamless :)
My problem is column selection mode. I'm used to hold Ctrl then point, click and drag. This feature seems like buggy in Geany, most of time it doesn't work. I then found out that I can use Shift+Ctrl which works as expected, but I first need to position cursor then do this selection, while if I use SciTE I just point and drag without positioning first.
Is there better solution to this problem, that may be not so obvious to new user?
TIA
Am 25.02.2012 00:07, schrieb klo uo:
Hi,
I'm switching from SciTE to Geany, as I feel features provided by Geany are exact what I missed in SciTE Thanks to dev team and special thanks to creator on Lua plugin, which made my transition seamless :)
My problem is column selection mode. I'm used to hold Ctrl then point, click and drag. This feature seems like buggy in Geany, most of time it doesn't work. I then found out that I can use Shift+Ctrl which works as expected, but I first need to position cursor then do this selection, while if I use SciTE I just point and drag without positioning first.
Is there better solution to this problem, that may be not so obvious to new user?
This is probably because CTRL+click goes to the definition of a tag (e.g. a function or variable) by default. I would like a solution to this problem too.
Best regards.
Speaking of which... Thomas, is the expected behavior (of Ctrl-Clicking) to open the file that defines the tag AND go to that line? In my present experiences, it only works if the file is already open.
Just looked at a tags file... doesn't appear there is a filename in there, so perhaps I was expecting something different.
(Another SciTE user who just needed more)
-Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: geany-bounces@uvena.de [mailto:geany-bounces@uvena.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Martitz Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:24 PM To: Geany general discussion list Subject: Re: [Geany] Issue with rectangular selection mode
Am 25.02.2012 00:07, schrieb klo uo:
Hi,
I'm switching from SciTE to Geany, as I feel features provided by Geany are exact what I missed in SciTE Thanks to dev team and special thanks to creator on Lua plugin, which made my transition seamless :)
My problem is column selection mode. I'm used to hold Ctrl then point, click and drag. This feature seems like buggy in Geany, most of time it doesn't work. I then found out that I can use Shift+Ctrl which works as expected, but I first need to position cursor then do this selection, while if I use SciTE I just point and drag without positioning first.
Is there better solution to this problem, that may be not so obvious to new user?
This is probably because CTRL+click goes to the definition of a tag (e.g. a function or variable) by default. I would like a solution to this problem too.
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This is probably because CTRL+click goes to the definition of a tag (e.g. a function or variable) by default. I would like a solution to this problem too.
Yes, you have to drag for long enough that it isn't seen as a click.
How many people would complain if we changed the ctrl-click to something else, my guess lots.
Cheers Lex
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IMHO this is de-facto standard feature if editor provides it. Alt+click on Windows and Ctrl+click on Linux (at least on Scintilla based editors). Even MS Word (and Write IIRC) support this feature
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
This is probably because CTRL+click goes to the definition of a tag
(e.g. a
function or variable) by default. I would like a solution to this problem too.
Yes, you have to drag for long enough that it isn't seen as a click.
How many people would complain if we changed the ctrl-click to something else, my guess lots.
Cheers Lex
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Just tested on my system- The only time I have trouble using rect. selection using ctrl-drag is when I ctrl-drag on a function name. Works just like it did in SciTE for me.
I'm running 0.21.0 but with all the commits that depended on GTK>2.10 dropped. Did a log search for "select" between versions 0.20.0 and 0.21.0 and doesn't seem there were any changes mentioning a change in behavior.
-Kevin
Ctrl-click (doesn't give you a chance to drag) also jumps on brace/parenthesis click as well. Nothing I see in preferences to turn symbol or parent ctrl-clicking off/reassigning behavior.
-Kevin
On 25 February 2012 10:55, Worth, Kevin kevin.worth@hp.com wrote:
Ctrl-click (doesn’t give you a chance to drag) also jumps on brace/parenthesis click as well. Nothing I see in preferences to turn symbol or parent ctrl-clicking off/reassigning behavior.
Right, I was testing on something that didn't have its definition open :-P
AFAICT the setting is hard coded.
Cheers Lex
-Kevin
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I'm also facing this annoying issue with rectangular selections.
IMO we should just distinct between a click (mouse down+up) and a click (just down) that start a dnd operation. Maybe is as simple as changing the "goto definition" trigger from mouse-down to mouse-up?
hope this can be usefull davemds
2012/2/25 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com
On 25 February 2012 10:55, Worth, Kevin kevin.worth@hp.com wrote:
Ctrl-click (doesn’t give you a chance to drag) also jumps on brace/parenthesis click as well. Nothing I see in preferences to turn
symbol
or parent ctrl-clicking off/reassigning behavior.
Right, I was testing on something that didn't have its definition open :-P
AFAICT the setting is hard coded.
Cheers Lex
-Kevin
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