[Geany-devel] Geany multicursors patch

[Colomban Wendling]

Hi,

Le 22/05/2012 20:40, Davide Andreoli a écrit :
> 2012/5/21 Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com
> <mailto:dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com>>
> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> 3. is there a way to really show multiple carets?
>>
>> No easy way AFAIK.
> 
> 
> hey! you are wrong :P
> 
> I found the easy way (that also solve the issue 2). I just enabled
> scintilla
> multiple selections ! in fact scintilla is able to do exactly what I was
> searching for :)
> (thank go to elextr that point me to the right direction in IRC)
> 
> ...and now the patch is just a 3 liner:
> 
> +++ b/src/editor.c
> @@ -4677,6 +4677,11 @@ static ScintillaObject
> *create_new_sci(GeanyEditor *editor)
>      /* virtual space */
>      SSM(sci, SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS,
> editor_prefs.show_virtual_space, 0);
> 
> +    /* multiple selection */
> +    SSM(sci, SCI_SETMULTIPLESELECTION, 1, 0);
> +    SSM(sci, SCI_SETADDITIONALSELECTIONTYPING, 1, 0);
> +    SSM(sci, SCI_SETRECTANGULARSELECTIONMODIFIER, SCMOD_SUPER, 0);
> 
> 
> [...]

I was about to dig into the Scintilla doc to check whether that
functionality did already exist when I started reading the thread, but I
see you and Lex already found out it did :)

This is a lot better than the initial implementation and looks like an
awesome feature :)

> [...]
> 
>>> note: this is my first geany patch... plese be kind :P

Hey, welcome to the dark side of the force^W application then! :)

Cheers,
Colomban