[Geany] Issue with rectangular selection mode

Thomas Martitz thomas.martitz at xxxxx
Fri Feb 24 23:23:47 UTC 2012


Am 25.02.2012 00:07, schrieb klo uo:
> Hi,
>
> I'm switching from SciTE to Geany, as I feel features provided by 
> Geany are exact what I missed in SciTE
> Thanks to dev team and special thanks to creator on Lua plugin, which 
> made my transition seamless :)
>
> My problem is column selection mode. I'm used to hold Ctrl then point, 
> click and drag. This feature seems like buggy in Geany, most of time 
> it doesn't work.
> I then found out that I can use Shift+Ctrl which works as expected, 
> but I first need to position cursor then do this selection, while if I 
> use SciTE I just point and drag without positioning first.
>
> Is there better solution to this problem, that may be not so obvious 
> to new user?


This is probably because CTRL+click goes to the definition of a tag 
(e.g. a function or variable) by default. I would like a solution to 
this problem too.

Best regards.



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