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