[Geany-devel] Scintilla 2.03 Update

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Tue Mar 16 22:53:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:18 +0100, Enrico wrote:

>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.

Here we go:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2971618&group_id=2439&atid=102439
and in the meantime this was also reported against Geany:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2969096&group_id=153444&atid=787791

Let's hope it'll get fixed soon.

Regards,
Enrico

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