Hi,

I'm using Lazarus 1.3 r42869 FPC 2.6.2 i386-win32-win32/win64 and tried to do the same thing that is possible with EditPad Pro. "Duplicate text as you type" [http://www.editpadpro.com/trickduplicate.html]. This is actually a very handy productivity tip.

I tried this in Lazarus but it didn't work. I thought it was maybe the 2 stage keyboard shortcuts that are causing a problem. eg: Ctrl+K,B

So I updated my keyboard shortcuts and added secondary shortcuts matching what EditPad Pro has. Ctrl+Shift+B for Begin Block, Ctrl+Shift+E for End Block, and Ctrl+D for Duplicate Block. I made sure I have no shortcut conflicts.

The editor commands I modified are:

- set block begin
- set block end
- copy block

Still, the blocking commands don't seem to work in Lazarus IDE. So have these blocking commands maybe been broken for some time and nobody noticed?

As a side note:
This is probably not important. In my Windows 2000 system, my default keyboard layout is United-States Dvorak. But as far as I know, the Dvorak layout has never caused such problems. After all, a shortcut is a shortcut, no matter what keyboard layout you use to type that shortcut.

Regards,
Graeme

The reason why this does not work in Lazarus is, because, after k-b you ace at the begin of block.

Apparently editpad handles that as inside the block, but lazarus handles this as outside the block. So typing does move the block begin.

You can see that, if you first set a block-end, somewhere further on in the text, so that there will be a visible block, when you do k-b

They only work, if you enable "persistent selection" in the general editor options.