Hey there, H via Users wrote:
>Did you try to extending the selection by more than one line? Yep. I created two separate paragraphs with a blank line between them and each paragraph contains several complete sentences. The initial press of Shift+Alt+L selects the entire first paragraph. Releasing the Alt and L and pressing the down arrow sends me down one line at a time, selecting the entire line each time. >By the way, even if it did work by keeping SHIFT pressed, it would >mean that you had to extend the selection at the same time as you >make the initial selection. Yes, although I figured that was what you had originally wanted. >In most cases you may want to extend the selection after looking at >your initial selection, ie after you released the keys. Needing to >keep SHIFT pressed seems suboptimal - even if it worked. That can be done this way: 1. Press Shift+Alt+L to select the current paragraph. 2. Let go of all of those keys. 3. Change your mind and decide you want to select more lines. 4. Press Shift+down arrow repeatedly to select more lines. >I asked the question because I could not find a keybinding in >Preferences for extending a selection by entire lines. Hopefully this will solve that. >Do you have such a keybinding in your Preferences? Nothing specifically for that, but I have this one modification that I make to the Geany keybindings any time I do a fresh installation because I feel so strongly about the behavior. It's possible that the selection process we're using above uses the Home and End keys under the hood. If so, the configuration below may affect the behavior and that could explain why we're seeing different results: ==================== Make Home and End keys go to beginning and end of displayed line rather than wrapping to another line A default Geany behavior that I don't like is that the "Home" and "End" keys go to the beginning and end of the current line no matter how long the line is, so if the line wraps, you could end up on a totally different line. This can be disturbing and disorienting for those of us who expect a "Home" or "End" key-press to take us to the beginning or end of the current line without wrapping. Luckily, Geany offers us a way to configure the behavior: 1. Open the "Edit" menu. 2. Choose "Preferences". 3. Choose the "Keybindings" tab. 4. Double-click "Go to Start of Line". 5. Press the "Alt" and "Home" keys at the same time. 6. Left-click the "OK" button. Click "Override" if you get a warning that that key combination is already in use. 7. Double-click "Go to End of Line". 8. Press the "Alt" and "End" keys at the same time. 9. Left-click the "OK" button. Click "Override" if you get a warning that that key combination is already in use. 10. Double-click "Go to Start of Display Line". 11. Press the "Home" key. 12. Left-click the "OK" button. 13. Double-click "Go to End of Display Line". 14. Press the "End" key. 15. Left-click the "OK" button. 16. Left-click the "Apply" button. 17. Left-click the "OK" button. ==================== -- Little Girl There is no spoon. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@lists.geany.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.geany.org
