[TxMt] Re: Range of selection string / environment variable TM_SELECTION

[Allan Odgaard]

On 16 Jan 2014, at 19:16, Kai Wood wrote:

> […] It’s clear that internally the cursors change from some kind 
> of “normal” column selection to multi-cursors, as one can see 
> considering the selection string […]

The “internal change” does manifest itself in some suble ways, for 
example extending the selection after “splitting it” will act 
differently. Though the goal was to treat a single zero-width column 
selection identical to multiple aligned carets (although they aren’t 
really the same).

> […] In my use case, I can still distinguish this state of the 
> cursors by parsing the selection string, but it’s a little more 
> complicated than relying on the newline.

Can you tell what info it is you wish to extract? As I believe the value 
of TM_SELECTION should be enough to tell you exactly what you need 
(without having to look at TM_SELECTED_TEXT).