[Geany-devel] Scintilla 2.03 Update

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:14:25 +0100, Colomban wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Enrico Tröger wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:22:08 +0100, Colomban wrote:
>> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>>> Interesting stuff indeed!
>>> But there's a "major" (small, but I use it often) change that can
>>> (is, for me) be very annoying: middle-click somewhere /always/
>>> places the cursor on the click position, even if virtual spaces are
>>> disabled. Why is this a big deal? because when pasting with the
>>> mouse (X-style), the pasted chunk is placed exactly where the mouse
>>> where at the click rather than at the start of the line - well,
>>> virtual space.
>> 
>> Besides the fact that you don't like the behaviour, I'm pretty sure
>> this has been the behaviour for a quite some time. To verify, I just
>> tried an old 0.17 build and it behaves the same.
>> So, I think this is at least no new bug/regression of the Scintilla
>> update.
>> 
>> […]
>No no, you misunderstood me, it's not about click position vs. cursor
>position, for me it's all OK (even more, better than pasting at cursor
>position).
>No, what I'm talking about is clearly virtual-spaces-related: if you
>paste something with middle-click by clicking after the end of a line
>(at the right of the EOL), it was used to paste at the end of line.
>Now, it pastes at the exact click position, then it adds as much
>spaces as it needs from the former EOL to the click position. Just try
>to middle-click somewhere outside line bounds (even without data to
>paste), you'll see ;)

Yeah.
I noticed the changed behaviour at work yesterday. That's a pretty
annpying regression. However, this seems to be Scintilla related, i.e.
Scite behaves the same.
I'll file a bugreport next week unless someone else is faster than me.

Regards,
Enrico

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