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

[Nick Treleaven]

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).

Regards,
Nick