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[Meyer]

D'oh.  I had tried that first, but incorrectly I guess and came to the
conclusion that you couldn't use keybindings with just a single character.
I suppose I shouldn't have given up so quickly, it's working perfectly now.

Thanks!
Alex

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Meyer <3m.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sure.  I want to be able to select text, and then insert a character
> (e.g.
> > an apostrophe) before and after the selection just by pressing the
> > apostrophe key.  Since the normal behavior when a character is pressed
> while
> > text is selected is to delete the text and insert a character, I need to
> > know when that happens - then I could undo the delete and insert my
> > characters.  If it was two separate events though - delete then insert -
> I
> > won't want to do anything.
> >
> > I have it working now, but it seems awfully hackish:  when one of the
> > characters I might insert is pressed, I store the current position of the
> > cursor and undo the last event.  If the new cursor position is the same
> > place as the old one, then it was a "overwrite" event.  Otherwise, it was
> > delete then insert.
> >
> > So, any ideas for how I could do this would be much appreciated!
>
> I assume you are writing a plugin.
>
> You should use the keybinding system to capture the apostrophe before
> it goes to scintilla so you can detect and do anything you want.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Am 01.12.2011 20:57, schrieb Meyer:
> >> > I have two possible situations that I need to differentiate between,
> and
> >> > I'm not sure how to do it - The first situation is the user deletes
> >> > selected text by overwriting it with a new character.  The second is
> the
> >> > user deletes selected text by pressing backspace/delete, and then
> enters
> >> > a new character.  I thought this would be fairly easy, but I've been
> >> > trying to figure it out for awhile and haven't gotten anywhere. Does
> >> > anyone have any ideas for how I could accomplish this?
> >>
> >> Can you go into more details in which context you need that information?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Frank
> >>
> >>
> >>
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