On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip
> Also here is another suggestion, for the editor: > > Is the Shift-Tab command taken in the editor? If > not, it would be useful to be able to indent a block of > text by highlighting the block and then doing Shift-Tab, > would it not? Or is there already a way to indent a > highlighted block and I am unaware of it? > > Theodore Kilgore At the moment the editor supports selecting text by range or line, depending on where you start and end your selection with the F3 key. I would also like to be able to select an arbitrary size block of text to copy, move or delete. Eg. placing the cursor at line 1, column 1, then selecting 'block mode', then pressing F3 to start the selection, then moving the cursor to another place in the text (say line 15, column 20) and pressing F3 again, to mark out the bottom right hand corner of a block of text. So in this example a block of text starting at line 1, column 1 and ending at line 15, column 20 would be selected and highlighted. So in block selection mode, the cursor should not select text any farther to the right of the actual current cursor position - even when making a selection over several lines of text. This should then hightlight that block for copying, moving or deleting. Maybe the editor could allow one to choose between 'select range', or 'select block', before pressing the F3 key to start the selection? So really what we need is the ability to select text by columns of varying width and height, which equates to a block of text. Then being able to copy, move or delete those columns from the text with the F5-copy, F6-move or F8-delete function keys? This functionality would then allow one to copy, move or delete text by columns of varying sizes, which would be very usefull IMHO. Kind Regards Keith Roberts ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk This email address is challenge-response protected with http://www.tmda.net ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
