[TextMate] Thoughts on doubleclick selection

[Dominique Peretti]

I just want to say that I 100% agree with that !

On 23 oct. 04, at 03:05, John Blitch wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have to get this out of my system: this is possibly my favorite new
> mac app. Amazing work!
>
> Anyway, these are my thoughts about how TextMate should respond to
> double-clicks on text, based on my preferences and the way other mac
> applications like BBedit or TextEdit perform.
>
> When I double click on whitespace, I like for the selection to stop at
> the beginning/end of the line, or the nearest adjacent non-whitespace
> character, whichcever comes first:
>
> [     ]word word
>
> Textmate selects the white space until the beginning/end of the line,
> or the nearest adjacent word, whichever comes first:
>
> [     word] word
>
> When I double click on a word, and then shift click to the right or
> left of the selected word, I like the selection to expand to include
> the word or whitespace I shift-clicked on:
>
>      [word] --> [     word]
>
> Textmate, interestingly, does this when I click to the right of a
> selected word, but when I click to the left of one, the selection is
> changed to the characters between where I clicked and the beginning of
> the old selection:
>
>      word [word] --> [word ]word
>
> I'd say it's praise that this is my biggest gripe after switching to
> TextMate a little less than 24 hours ago. Yeay textmate!
>
> John
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