I primarily use the keyboard. If I want to "teach myself" a different way of interacting, I'd go for vim!!

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Sven Axelsson sven.axelsson@gmail.comwrote:

On 5 November 2010 11:30, Tim Diggins tim@red56.co.uk wrote:

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<snip> ... forcing selection to full lines ...

Is there a way to make this happen? Can I "decorate' those commands somehow

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to select the relevant lines first... Or would I just have to rewrite those particular features (for each bundle I want them to happen in? )

thanks in advance

The commands could be rewritten, for sure, but wouldn't it be easier to teach yourself to select full lines when you need it? I usually make such selections by triple-clicking the first line to select it, and then dragging which will now continue to select full lines. You can also click and drag in the line number gutter to select full lines.

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Hi,

for such cases I wrote the TMTOOLS plugin

http://email.eva.mpg.de/~bibiko/downloads/textmate/

help:

http://email.eva.mpg.de/~bibiko/downloads/textmate/tmtoolshelp.html

If you install it (on your own risk ;) then you can write this tmcommand and bind it to any short-cut:

Save: nothing

Command:

if [ ${#TM_SELECTED_TEXT} -gt 0 ]; then "$TMTOOLS" set caretTo "{line=$TM_INPUT_START_LINE;column=0;}" if [ $TM_LINE_NUMBER -eq $TM_INPUT_START_LINE ]; then "$TMTOOLS" move selectionBy "{line=0;column=$((${#TM_SELECTED_TEXT} + $TM_COLUMN_NUMBER - 1));}" else "$TMTOOLS" move selectionBy "{line=$(($TM_LINE_NUMBER-$TM_INPUT_START_LINE));column=$(($TM_COLUMN_NUMBER - 1));}" fi fi

"$TMTOOLS" call command '{name="Comment Line / Selection";}'

Input: nothing

Output: Show as Tool Tip

Have fun,

--Hans

Yeah, great tip - I'd missed that very useful key command.

However the more I think about it, the more I think that the current behaviour with (what you might call sloppy multi-line selection), for indent/dedent and comment/uncomment is not very helpful. Indeed I can't understand what need the current behaviour serves (i.e. should be treated as a bug).

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Rob McBroom mailinglist0@skurfer.comwrote:

On Nov 5, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Sven Axelsson wrote:

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OK, keyboard it is. How about just hitting Shift+Cmd+L to extend the selection to full lines? That's not too bad, right?

I use that all the time to select the current line. I didn't know it could be used to fix a sloppy selection like that. Thanks for the tip!

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On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Tim Diggins wrote:

However the more I think about it, the more I think that the current behaviour with (what you might call sloppy multi-line selection), for indent/dedent and comment/uncomment is not very helpful. Indeed I can't understand what need the current behaviour serves (i.e. should be treated as a bug).

I comment selections now and then (usually at the end of a line). I agree that use cases for doing this on multiple-line selections are less common, but even there it can come in handy. CSS is a prime example, since it only has block style commenting.

.one { padding: 0em; } .two { padding: 1em; }

If I wanted to comment out the “one” class and selected the first three lines, I would end up breaking the “two” class.

/*.one { padding: 0em; } */.two { padding: 1em; }

So I get around this by selecting everything but the newline.