[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Multiple carets, selections, insertion points and paste (#1141)

[Ryan Wiedemann]

I've now got ctrl-click multiple selections working, (I can make multiple selections and type into all of them at once) on my [debugging branch](https://github.com/Ryan1729/geany/tree/ryan1729debug). Note that that branch  simply deletes the old ctrl-click functionality, (and has a bunch of printouts besides), so it' is not suitable to add to the main codebase, but it works as a proof of concept. 

So the question now seems to be how should the settings for ctrl-clicking be handled? The natural thing to do right now seems (to me) to be a set of radio buttons, (and a corresponding enum) that allows selecting between the old functionality (goto-tag and find-matching-brace), adding a selection, and not doing anything on ctrl-click at all. However, that old discussion thread mentioned the idea of mouse bindings, (so the user could bind arbitrary actions to mouse inputs,) which seems like a reasonable idea. If that's ever going to happen, then we should probably think about that when deciding how this setting works. If we go with my enum proposal then later mouse bindings get added, then either user's configuration files break or we have one of two undesirable situations : this enum overrides the keybindings, meaning the user might set mouse bindings and not understand why they need to set the enum to "None" or an additional setting of "Allow keybinding", or the other situation where the keybindings override the enum and if a user binds something to ctrl-shift-click and is surprised that ctrl-click stops doing what they expect.

Then again, would not having either setting override each other be best? If a user is surprised that ctrl-clicking adds a selection, in addition to whatever they set it to do, then hopefully that would prompt them to look in the settings to turn that off? Maybe someone else has a better idea that avoids even that problem?

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