[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Selecting a part of a long line made almost impossible by unintended auto-scrolling (#2475)

[L.V.]

I often have to work with files that contain a few longer (as in: "4 screen widths wide") lines - which I would still like to see not wrapped around, since differences of similar lines a few lines above or below are much easier to spot that way.

But geany makes it almost impossible to mouse-click-drag-select a piece of those longer lines, as even the smallest deviation on the Y-axis with the mouse causes a wild auto-scroll back to where surrounding lines end, so correcting one's mouse-movement back to the line subject to selection does not help - the previous x-position is lost.

Can I somehow disable the unwanted auto-scrolling while click-drag-selecting?

Other editors, like "nedit", do the natural and right thing: If you get below or above your currently selected line with the mouse pointer, the selection is extended accordingly, to the line below of above, but the position of the text in the window does not change, so it is easy to just move back the mouse pointer to the line of interest without unintentionally leaving the correct x-axis position.

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