[Geany-devel] Scintilla 2.03 Update

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:53:46 +0100, Enrico wrote:

>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.

It was recently fixed in Scintilla and now also in Geany's latest SVN
version.

Thanks.

Regards,
Enrico

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