Change in source editor behaviour ?

Michael Van Canneyt3-30-2017 20:44 UTC

Hello,

I just updated my Lazarus - after quite some time (I was at 52983) to the latest SVN version (54501).

It seems the editor behaviour regarding selection has changed. In a *major* annoying way, I might add.

Before the update, if I stood at the start of a line, and did shift-down, the first line would be selected, including newline. Which is exactly what I wanted and what I always used: shift-down to select a line, copy to clipboard and then paste somewhere.

After the update, when I do this, the first line is selected, and the second line (where the cursor is after shift-down) as well. With as a result that I can no longer select a single line with newline!!

Is this intentional and if so, can this new behaviour be reverted - or at least made optional ? it is *extremely* annoying, I have no words for it (and if I had they would be really, really expletive).

It's IMHO also bad policy to change the behaviour of an editor in such a major way without at least notifying people (as far as I can see, there is nothing in the WIKI about this)

Michael.

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Michael Van Canneyt3-30-2017 20:58 UTC

to Michael Van Canneyt

Hello,

Sorry about the noise.

By searching the keyboard shortcuts I found

'line selection mode',

which was mapped to CTRL-K, L.
AFAIK this combination was previously mapped (in my settings) to 'select current line'. (to verify, I checked the settings in 'joe', which is configured using the same keys as Lazarus...)

I seem to have activated this inadvertently after the update ?

Strange. Once more, sorry about the noise.

Always happens.
After you send a mail, you stumble on the solution of the problem...

Michael.

Michael Van Canneyt wrote 34 lines

Hello, I just updated my Lazarus - after quite some time (I was at 52983) to the latest SVN version (54501). It seems the editor behaviour regarding selection has changed. In a *major* annoying way, I might add. Before the update, if I stood at the start of a line, and did shift-down, the first line would be selected, including newline. Which is exactly what I wanted and what I always used: shift-down to select a line, copy to clipboard and then paste somewhere. After the update, when I do this, the first line is selected, and the second line (where the cursor is after shift-down) as well. With as a result that I can no longer select a single line with newline!! Is this intentional and if so, can this new behaviour be reverted - or at least made optional ? it is *extremely* annoying, I have no words for it (and if I had they would be really, really expletive). It's IMHO also bad policy to change the behaviour of an editor in such a major way without at least notifying people (as far as I can see, there is nothing in the WIKI about this) Michael. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

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Werner Pamler3-30-2017 21:09 UTC

to Michael Van Canneyt: I just updated my Lazarus - after quite some time (I was at 52983) to the latest SVN…

Michael Van Canneyt wrote 30 lines

Hello, I just updated my Lazarus - after quite some time (I was at 52983) to the latest SVN version (54501). It seems the editor behaviour regarding selection has changed. In a *major* annoying way, I might add. Before the update, if I stood at the start of a line, and did shift-down, the first line would be selected, including newline. Which is exactly what I wanted and what I always used: shift-down to select a line, copy to clipboard and then paste somewhere. After the update, when I do this, the first line is selected, and the second line (where the cursor is after shift-down) as well. With as a result that I can no longer select a single line with newline!! Is this intentional and if so, can this new behaviour be reverted - or at least made optional ? it is *extremely* annoying, I have no words for it (and if I had they would be really, really expletive). It's IMHO also bad policy to change the behaviour of an editor in such a major way without at least notifying people (as far as I can see, there is nothing in the WIKI about this) Michael.

I had this too, and it took me quite a while to find out: this is the line selection mode which I must have activated accidentally. Working in classic keyboard scheme this happens with CTRL-KL. Since I never knew the key short cut to turn it off again I removed this key mapping, and since then, I have not seen it again.

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silvioprog3-30-2017 21:21 UTC

to Michael Van Canneyt: Sorry about the noise. By searching the keyboard shortcuts I found which was mapped to…

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