On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Jean Johner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 27, 1:54 pm, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: >> If I understand you correctly, that's the selection mechanism that lets >> you copy text from the screen to the command you are typing. > > Hello Bram, > What I wanted to say is that the present behaviour is not intuitive in > my opinion. > Take the case of the Linux distribution with the default .vimrc > After you have typed > gvim file1 > :sp file2 > q: > you get two status lines: file1 at the bottom and file2 in the middle. > When you put the mouse on the status line file1, you see a vertical > double-sided arrow which indicates that you can use the mouse to > change the dimension of the window. And in fact it does. > When you put the mouse on the status line file2, you see the same > arrow so that you are tempted to do the same, but this time it does > not work (for good reasons) and you select text instead. I think that > will be felt to be a bug by new users (like me). > Two possibilities in my opinion: > 1/ When you put the mouse on status line file2, a cross appears > instead of an arrow, indicating that the mouse is not active there. If > the user tries to drag, nothing happens. Selection of text in the > status line is forbidden in that case. > 2/ If you really want to allow selection in the status line file2 > (which in my opinion is not useful since it is not possible in status > line file1), then it would be better to show the standard oblique one- > sided arrow when you put the mouse on status line file2.
3) Or, don't allow any windows to be resized when the command-line window is open. I'd prefer symmetry. Though I still don't follow why both can't be resizable, I'd rather no windows be resizable than only some of them. > I have another problem in the case of Windows distribution with the > default _vimrc. > After having typed the same commands as above, I could not find a way > to copy the text selected by dragging the mouse in file1 or file2 to > the command line window. Center-click does work neither CTRL-C/CTRL-V. :help modeless-selection ~Matt -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
