Re: [Texmacs-dev] Patches: copy/paste and selection handling.

[Norbert Nemec]

In fact, this was exactly the point that started me off in changing the 
selection handling as well. The core idea behind my changes is that the 
selection should *always* be at the position of the cursor. In the 
patched version, there is no way to move the cursor without either 
unselecting or changing the size of the selection. Also, when you select 
using the mouse, the cursor is always placed at the last position where 
the mouse is released.

B.t.w.: It still is possible to scroll away using the mouse so that both 
cursor and selection are off screen. This is standard behavior and is 
fairly safe as you typically would not press delete without seeing the 
cursor anyway.


Daniel Bump wrote:
> On this thread, the single thing that seems to me to 
> be most important to change is that highlighted
> text is persistent. You can select (red highlight)
> some text and scroll away until the marked
> text is not even on the screen. Then if you hit
> backspace, it is deleted off-stage. So it is
> possible to accidentally delete something.
> Selection can also happen unintentially just
> moving the mouse around, especially with a
> trackpad that sometimes can generate spurious
> mouseclicks. This would be less annoying if
> it were easier to unselect, but in fact my
> usual way of removing an undesirable selection
> is to hit the space bar (then delete the space).
> And since selected text can be accidentally
> deleted, it is important to do this.
>
>   
> > The second patch makes selections generally non-persistent (i.e. text is 
> > unselected as soon as cursor is moved). This is the standard set by 
> > Windows and adopted by freedesktop.org (i.e. KDE, Gnome, etc.). If 
> > anybody has a good reason for supporting persistent selections, please 
> > bring it forward.
> >     
>
> I haven't tried the patches but if I understand
> correctly this would address the above-mentioned
> problem, which I think is serious.
>
> Daniel Bump
>
>
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