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

[L.V.]

On 4/16/20 12:57 PM, elextr wrote:
> What happens in Nedit if the cursor moves off the line to one that is
> so much shorter that the cursor is off screen?

In that situation, while click-drag-selecting, the cursor in nedit is shown
at the very left of the edit window. Only when you end your selection, the
window scrolls to a position where some text to the left of the cursor is
visible.

(The only occasion on which nedit scrolls while click-drag-selecting is
when you move the mouse pointer outside the edit window, then the content
will (one by one character) scroll to show more content in the direction of
your mouse pointer.)

> The basic premise that Scintilla (the editing widget Geany uses) has,
> is that the cursor should always be visible after user action.

If "after" is interpreted as "after the mouse button is released", then
I would be happy with this.


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