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Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158467]

Wed, 12 May 2004 18:56

Ken Collins

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I have smart cursor positioning selected in the Java editor typing
preferences, and I like the way it works for the most part. What I find
annoying is that ctrl-arrow moves past the end of a word to the beginning
of the next word, over punctuation marks.

I'd like to see it work more like mouse selection, where double-clicking
highlights the word up to but not including spaces or punctuation.

I checked the bug list and didn't find anything. If this
annoys anyone else, I'll submit a feature request.

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Re: Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158507 is a reply to message #158467]

Wed, 12 May 2004 21:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rhill2_._free.fr

Ken Collins wrote:

> I checked the bug list and didn't find anything. If this
> annoys anyone else, I'll submit a feature request.

yup.. little annoyance but still..

-- gd

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Re: Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158514 is a reply to message #158467]

Wed, 12 May 2004 21:53

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: kariem_h.hotmail.com

Hi Ken,

I assume this is the standard behaviour for Windows. I just tested it.
The problem might not be the selection itself but pasting the text after
copying it into the clipboard.

Something like "smart-paste" as in MS Word would be a nice-to-have:

Try this in Word

- Select a word with CTRL-SHIFT-Arrow from the middle of a sentence
- CTRL-X (cut)
- The clipboard should now hold ("yourword ")
- Move the cursor to the end of a sentence (just before the ".")
- CTRL-V (paste)

=> it inserts the following string: " yourword". Because that is the way
it fits best.

I think the preference set by "Editor" > "Typing" > "Escape text when
parsing into a string literal" does something similar. When you paste
text with special characters (e.g. from an XML source) into a Java
String the quotation marks are escaped. I would call that nice feature a
"smart-paste" :)

Kariem

Ken Collins wrote:
> I have smart cursor positioning selected in the Java editor typing
> preferences, and I like the way it works for the most part. What I find
> annoying is that ctrl-arrow moves past the end of a word to the beginning
> of the next word, over punctuation marks.
>
> I'd like to see it work more like mouse selection, where double-clicking
> highlights the word up to but not including spaces or punctuation.
>
> I checked the bug list and didn't find anything. If this
> annoys anyone else, I'll submit a feature request.

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Re: Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158535 is a reply to message #158467]

Thu, 13 May 2004 07:43

Tom Hofmann

Messages: 770
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=57193

Ken Collins wrote:
> I have smart cursor positioning selected in the Java editor typing
> preferences, and I like the way it works for the most part. What I find
> annoying is that ctrl-arrow moves past the end of a word to the beginning
> of the next word, over punctuation marks.
>
> I'd like to see it work more like mouse selection, where double-clicking
> highlights the word up to but not including spaces or punctuation.
>
> I checked the bug list and didn't find anything. If this
> annoys anyone else, I'll submit a feature request.

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Re: Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158556 is a reply to message #158535]

Thu, 13 May 2004 13:18

Ken Collins

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:43:25 +0200, Tom Eicher wrote:

> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=57193
>

Thanks. It has my vote.

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Re: Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158568 is a reply to message #158514]

Thu, 13 May 2004 13:29

Ken Collins

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:53:29 +0200, Kariem Hussein wrote:

> I assume this is the standard behaviour for Windows. I just tested it.
> The problem might not be the selection itself but pasting the text after
> copying it into the clipboard.
>
> Something like "smart-paste" as in MS Word would be a nice-to-have:
>
> Try this in Word
>
> - Select a word with CTRL-SHIFT-Arrow from the middle of a sentence
> - CTRL-X (cut)
> - The clipboard should now hold ("yourword ")
> - Move the cursor to the end of a sentence (just before the ".")
> - CTRL-V (paste)
>
> => it inserts the following string: " yourword". Because that is the way
> it fits best.

I'm working on Linux, so I'm not familiar with this feature in Word. I was
hoping for an option to make the shift-ctrl-arrow combination move to the
end of the word instead of the beginning of the next word, or at least
allow an option for it.

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