On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure what your first chunk is doing. Besides, it is very strange
> that you need to know the position on the current row. Isn't this a screen
> update problem ?

I agree. I just don't know how else to solve the "first word on a line
problem" (which happens if you take the first chunk out).

Scott

>
> Sorry to be so terse, I'm reading on a phone.
>
> JMarc
>
> Le 14 février 2015 03:29:21 CET, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> a écrit
> :
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  I have a patch that enables "word selection mode" on double click. It
>>>>>  seems to work well. The patch is here:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7890/0001-Fix-9160-and-7890.patch
>>>>>
>>>>>  The only major issue is that when dragging to the left,
>>>>> you cannot
>>>>>  highlight the first word. Does anyone have an idea for where to fix
>>>>>  this?
>>>>>
>>>>>  The following patch might give a clue as to where the problem is. When
>>>>>  applied, you can select the first word. It is not meant to be taken as
>>>>>  a correct patch:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7890/0002-HACK-just-to-show-where-the-problem-is.patch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I'm still looking for help on this in case anyone is motivated.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Still looking for help on this (perhaps just a guess on where in the
>>>  code to look to fix the problem?). It would be nice to put this into
>>>  2.2.
>>
>>
>> I've made some progress. The attached patch does not suffer from not
>> being able to select the first word on a line, except if the line
>> spans several "screen lines" (i.e. the line wraps). In
>> order to solve
>> the problem when the line is wrapped, how do I get the position of the
>> cursor on the visual line? I'm currently conditioning on pos() == 0. I
>> imagine I need to condition on something defined in frontend/ but I'm
>> not sure what.
>>
>> Scott

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