[TxMt] Something 'fix' before 1.1 ??

otheraccount at verizon.net otheraccount at verizon.net
Sat Nov 27 01:41:21 UTC 2004


Here are a three minor things that might be small and fixable... But 
before that: I can certainly see how fixing this kind of detail stuff 
can't be as much fun as adding new features, but I'm sure I'm not the 
only one who _really_ appreciates it---these kind of little things 
really affect the day-to-day experience of using the editor, and it's 
really nice to see them improved. So, Allan, thanks for enduring the 
drudgery.

Now the things:

Thing 1: When you triple-click on a paragraph with text soft-wrapped, 
it selects a screen line rather than an actual line (i.e., a 
paragraph). Is there any way it could be changed so that it selects the 
paragraph/real line instead? That's a useful thing to be able to do, 
and it's also what Cocoa apps normally do and I can't seem to make 
myself stop expecting it to happen.

Thing 2: A related point---a lot of the time it's really frustrating 
that select-paragraph and select-line change their behavior the way 
they do when turning soft wrap on and off. That is, there is no way to 
select a real/logical line irrespective of the view being used. This 
means that my macros for toggling comments---which are set up to work 
without first having to select things manually---will only work in one 
mode or the other. So if it were possible to add an additional key/menu 
option/thing that selects a real line irrespective of the view being 
used, that would be fantastic.

Thing 3: This really is _very_ minor, and I'm not sure that it hasn't 
been mentioned before, but when selecting whole lines with the mouse, 
it seems to be impossible to get a selection that includes a blank line 
at the end.

I hope this isn't an unreasonable amount of whining.




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