On 09/26/2014 06:13 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > I would like to improve the word boundaries for the text widgets: > GtkTextView, GtkEntry and GtkLabel (anything else?). More precisely the > word boundaries used for word movements (Ctrl+arrow) and word selection > (double click). Currently the behavior is not consistent across the text > widgets in GTK+ (and other applications), and the current word > boundaries don't work well with spaces, punctuations, > variables_with_underscores, etc.
Awesome! > By seeing how Vim handles word movements, I think it's a much better > behavior. Deriving the "Vim" word boundaries from the Pango word > boundaries is quite straightforward (I have a workable patch): it uses > only the is_word_start and is_word_end PangoLogAttr attributes, > g_unichar_isspace() and compare if a character is an underscore. I'm doing exactly this in Builder today for VIM style `w` and `b`. > Another idea for GtkTextView is to add a vfunc to let GtkSourceView > define custom word boundaries for word movements and selection. But > all what GtkSourceView would do is to define the "Vim" word boundaries, > which are generic. The Vim word boundaries are good enough, we don't > need more flexibility. So I prefer to implement directly the Vim word > boundaries in GTK+, and have a consistent behavior with other widgets. I would really like this to be a vfunc so that it could be handled by per-language overrides in GtkSourceView/GtkSourceLanguage. Additionally, I'd like double-click and triple-click to be different things. Imagine triple-click selecting the whole scope in some C code for example. > Do you think it's a good plan? I can't speak for everyone, but clearly useful for me on Builder. -- Christian _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
