[TxMt] Re: manipulating full lines rather than selection

[Tim Diggins]

Oh, ok - I can see that use-case. Always interesting how different people
use software differently.

Thanks for all the responses.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
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>
> Rob McBroom
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>
>
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