[TextMate] Shifting Selections and Folded Sections - TextMate

21 Oct 2004


      1) If I put the cursor at the front of a collapsed, folded section and 
press tab, I expected (and desire) it to be the equivalent of 
performing a Shift Right on the entire fold.
2) (more controversial, perhaps) if I select a few lines, starting in 
the middle of the first line, I expect/desire Shift Right and Left to 
apply to the start of the line where the selection starts, not to 
insert tabs in the middle of it.
In the following example, | marks the start and end of the selection:
class Foo
    def bar
    puts "That's gre|at it starts with an earthquake"
    puts "birds and snakes and aeroplanes"
    puts "and Lenny |Bruce is not afraid."
    end
end
This selection is because I was in the middle of the word 'great' and 
performed shift+down arrow twice.
When I Shift Right, it should do this:
class Foo
    def bar
|		puts "That's great it starts with an earthquake"
    	puts "birds and snakes and aeroplanes"
    	puts "and Lenny Bruce is not afraid."           |
    end
end
And not this:
class Foo
    def bar
    puts "That's gre	|at it starts with an earthquake"
    	puts "birds and snakes and aeroplanes"
    	puts "and Lenny |Bruce is not afraid."
    end
end
A workaround that I suppose I could get used to is to perform Select 
Line after selecting the text, before shifting...but that should happen 
automatically. (As noted in the example, the act of shifting left/right 
should not only affect the entire line, it should also select the full 
lines.)
Operating in rectangular selection/column mode is a different story, 
but doesn't change how it should (IMO) behave in this case.
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