Andy Sy wrote:
Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
That would be so cool to have virtual spaces.
This is the only reason, that I change often
from SciTE to another editor to edit
certain column things.
Also the jumping of the cursor going
line up and down, I cannot get used.
Yes, when editing text (HTML pages would
be typical) that have widely varying line
lengths, the presence of 'infinite' virtual
trailing spaces would cut down on frustration
greatly and be of great ergonomic boon.
I wonder if there's a way to solve that
cursor jumping without resorting to virtual
trailing spaces.
I suppose I am used to this "jumping" that is the case in most editing
components I know (including the text area of Mozilla where I type this
message...).
So I never missed virtual space never. Actually, I could try it on some
editors, and if I could, I quickly disabled it.
I suppose that's a matter of tastes and habits.
Now, I acknoledge this is a problem with rectangular selection. I even
saw a bug where the cursor goes from a long line to a smaller one: the
rectangular selection is still at caret position, but the actual
selection is at end of smaller line.
Having done already some work on the rectangular selection, I tried to
resolve the problem by providing some kind of virtual space in this mode
(mouse only), but:
1) There are some hard problems, like "was it the size of a virtual
space?". Which style to use? Perhaps compute the number of chars from
the latest valid line.
2) I got sidetracked and currently I have very little time to work on
SciTE/Scintilla, alas. But I will try and push up the priority of this
problem.
--
Philippe Lhoste
-- (near) Paris -- France
-- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr
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