This change has been checked in and is active for body text only. It is on by default so you should be able to test immediately after update.
I ran the unit tests for text commands and all passed. Please let me know if you run into any strange behavior or crashes. On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 7:23:30 AM UTC-5, john lunzer wrote: > > After having just poked around in the copy and paste code and after > implemented my own cursor position retention code for other (unreleased) > features I think it wouldn't be too much of an issue. > > I personally don't see why it would be an issue, I think the current > behavior exists because it is a simpler implementation. I guess I could see > why somebody might always want the cursor at the end of the paste and so > you're right a new setting would probably be needed. > > Please submit this as an issue to the github page and I can add an > enhancement flag to it. I can't promise a timeframe but I'll try to look > into it sooner rather than later. I think I have all the code in different > places, I think it would just be a matter of mixing it together. > > On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 6:29:21 PM UTC-5, Chris George wrote: >> >> I have a question. >> >> It would be useful to me to have the position of the cursor retained when >> copy/pasting text. >> >> For example: If I begin selecting a word/snippet of text from the left to >> the right and I paste it, the cursor remains at the end of the string. If I >> select from right to left and then copy/paste, the cursor still goes to the >> end of the string. It would be more consistent for me if it were to remain >> at the beginning of the string, if that was where it was during the >> copy/paste operation. >> >> None of the other applications I tested on my Linux box display this >> behaviour either, so I imagine that there is a good reason why no one does >> this but I can't think of what it might be. >> >> So, is there a good reason why no one does this and how hard would it be >> to add this to Leo with a setting to allow the user ot choose the desired >> behaviour? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
