On 23/4/2006, at 0:43, Duane Johnson wrote:
[...] Has this been discussed before? It seems plausible given the powerful way we can already "insert as snippet" to the document.
This is slightly related to discontinuous selections, my view here is, that sure it would be cool, but it would be used by very very few users, it has no good use for keyboard users (which I myself is) and it would make the source code much more complex, and basically every single thing that deals with the caret or selection, would have to deal with considerations arising from this new ability -- so it would not just be one addition, it would hunt me for the rest of eternity.
IOW this is not happening anytime soon -- only if I find some very clever abstraction, would I consider adding it.