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Index > General Discussion ~ line selection keyboard shortucts do not mimic std windows |
| primco |
 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:20 am |
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shift+end usually selects to the end of the line from the cursor. when lines are wrapped the behavior is to select to the place where it's wrapped. that is standard in most editors i'm familiar with. however, e selects to the end of the cr/lf with this keystroke and the same behavior can be had with shift+ctrl+L (atually the latter continues to select the next line down on repeated presses).
i can get the similar behavior in e and other windows editors if i position the cursor at the start of the line and use down arrow. this selects one line at a time to the wrapped line end, not the hard line end.
so why the divergence from the windows keystrokes for shift+end? i'm not saying one makes more sense than the other. just curious.
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| ernstla |
| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:19 am |
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| borland |
| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:32 pm |
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"End" by definition goes to the end of the line. If you have a line-wrap, are you saying you don't want it to do that, but instead go to the wrap point which is just arbitrarily halfway in the middle of the line? why would you do that?
If the "middle of line where it happens to wrap" is so significant, I'd advise judicious use of the "Enter" key and put an actual line break there  |
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| primco |
| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:55 pm |
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borland wrote: "End" by definition goes to the end of the line.
I wasn't interested in arguing the definition of "End". I was simply pointing out that the editor convention on many windows apps (notepad, word, notepad++, visualstudio) is not the same as e. I think e should conform to the platform convention as it does in other places. |
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| borland |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:58 am |
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True. I hadn't realised others did that as prior to E and it's "smart wrapping" I'd always had word wrap disabled.
One thing I do like about the visual studio (for example) word wrap is that if you're on the wrapped portion of a really long line, pressing the up arrow takes you to the first-part of that same line, whereas E "misses" it.
I think all this stuff sort of falls under a blanket request of something like "For keyboard-navigation purposes, treat a wrapped line as if it were 2 lines"
I retract my further asshattery and +1 vote for the above feature |
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| Dirhael |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:51 am |
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| I really do hope that this "feature" does *not* get implemented in E. I fully expect the [end] key to do what it says, go to the end of the line and not the wrap point. If it does however, please make it an optional setting. |
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