I'm a newbie textmate user, and unfamiliar so forgive me if this has been covered before.
When double-clicking on whitespace to select and then moving the mouse to text (to select by word) it's very annoying to me that the word at the other end of the whitespace is selected. I've seen this behavior in M$ products and it drives me nuts. Am I the only one?
To me it's obvious that if I double click something and then move left that it's wrong for something rightwards to become selected.
I'm sure I'll learn to cope, but I thought I'd ask about it.
I'm still getting used to it, but I think I like TextMate. :)
I installed the SQL bundle, but it didn't do it for me. At some point I'll have to go make a syntax file that supports Oracle PL/SQL (since that's what I edit mostly these days).
cheers
Patrick
On Dec 10, 2004, at 10:48, Patrick Kelly wrote:
When double-clicking on whitespace to select and then moving the mouse to text (to select by word) it's very annoying to me that the word at the other end of the whitespace is selected. [...]
I'm putting this down as a bug.
Thanks!
Another thing, which is less a bug, but more of a nice-to-have: I've gotten used to highlighting and then dragging text in terminal. This is like a short-cut of copy & paste. I see that in TextMate you can do the same gesture except it results in CUT & paste. The thing is that I just about never want to do cut & paste, but I need to copy & paste little bits of text A LOT (variable names, types, anything that's visible that I want to reuse). I'd like to have an option to switch this select-text-drag to copy instead of move.
On Dec 10, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Dec 10, 2004, at 10:48, Patrick Kelly wrote:
When double-clicking on whitespace to select and then moving the mouse to text (to select by word) it's very annoying to me that the word at the other end of the whitespace is selected. [...]
I'm putting this down as a bug.
On Dec 11, 2004, at 10:58, Patrick Kelly wrote:
[...] I see that in TextMate you can do the same gesture except it results in CUT & paste.
It's a move when it's in the same window, copy when it's to a different window (per AHIG recommendations) -- you can change the move to a copy by holding down the option modifier key (you should then get the copy cursor with the plus sign).
Cool! It's just a little awkward that I can't hit option til after I'm dragging (otherwise I get the columnar selector), but that definitely addresses the need. I guess I'd still like to have the ability to toggle it as the default behavior, but I'm sure there are many more important items. I'll be happy enough with this solution.
thanks
On Dec 11, 2004, at 2:04 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Dec 11, 2004, at 10:58, Patrick Kelly wrote:
[...] I see that in TextMate you can do the same gesture except it results in CUT & paste.
It's a move when it's in the same window, copy when it's to a different window (per AHIG recommendations) -- you can change the move to a copy by holding down the option modifier key (you should then get the copy cursor with the plus sign).
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