Re: Edita 0.05
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Feb 04, 2005
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:13 +0100, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> wrote: >When you drag the mouse with the left mouse key pressed, it does normal >"stream" selection. When then the ALT key is pressed additionally, in >some editors "column" selection is applied. I see (I didn't know that). > >Using the keyboard, pressing SHIFT and the appropriate "arrow key" does >normal selection. Consequently, additionally pressing the ALT key should >apply block selection in this context, too. Yes. I've done both the above now.... > >For permanently toggling the selection mode, there should be a menu >entry. I'm not sure what a good keyboard shortcut for this is, maybe >CTRL-B (for "block") to toggle it on an off, respectively. >IMHO it also would be nice when the current selection mode is shown on >the status bar. The way I've done it, you switch from column mode to normal mode by releasing the Alt key, so I've decided against a menu option and therefore anything in the statusbar. Regards, Pete PS It'll probably be at least a couple of days before I post 0.0.6.