On 3/4/09 at 12:13 PM, [email protected] (mappingman) wrote:
>The way to select a line has
>always been to option click the left margin, until now.
Sorry, not over here.
I recall considerable happiness on this list when BBSW
introduced the preference option to enable clicking in the left
margin to select a line (with no key pressed). There was also
some adjustment needed over how clicking the margin to select a
line handled soft-wrapped lines.
That was sometime back in v. 7 or 8. How's that for a narrow
range of time? I found the printed manual from v. 6 and it's not
mentioned there -- nor is option-clicking the left margin
mentioned in its description of ways to select text. The rest of
my manuals are packed away on the old program install CDs.
Anyway, it's really a sincere question to ask why you want
"option-click" when you get the desired result just from
"click". Perhaps there are fine answers. But even if
option-clicking the left margin DID select the adjacent line in
a previous version of BBEdit, you haven't lost the
functionality, just the keypress.
I'm guessing that the jump-to-next-identical-line behavior when
option-clicking the left margin is new, and before that the
option key didn't do anything when the left margin was clicked.
That would explain both your and my experiences (assuming the
"Allow single-click line selection" preference was checked).
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
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