On 22.12.2004, at 11:40, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
On 20-12-2004 16:56, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Dec 20, 2004, at 11:46, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
At the moment it is virtually impossible drag-select some text and the newline character of a line that is followed by a non-empty line.
Drag the cursor one line down and to the left (before the next line starts), this should then include the newline w/o selecting anything from the next line).
This is not really an intuitive solution: I expect the newline character to be at the end of a line, not before column 0 of the next line.
Jeroen,
I think your expectations don't match Macintosh tradition. All Mac apps (with AFAIK the sole except of Microsoft Word) work the way Allan describes. I've used Macs for 14 years; TextMate works the way I expect it to in this regard.
Some suggestions I can offer you:
If you want to select a whole line, including the newline at the end, do not drag from the start of the line to the end of that line. Drag instead from the start of the line to the start of the next line. This is a much shorter mouse movement anyway.
If you want to start selecting in the middle of the line and would like to move the mouse to the end of the line to accomplish this, instead of moving to the beginning of the next line, you can do so, and the newline will not be selected. Then, to select the newline as well, you can press Shift-Right Arrow.