Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-17 Thread Patrick Woolsey
The cause of this behavior is that Help Viewer does not perform exact string searches; instead, it behaves more like Spotlight and thus is likely to report lots of spurious matches when fed such a set of words: for instance, "point" leading to the entry for "Set advanced Point-to-Point

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-16 Thread Patrick Woolsey
On 6/15/17 at 11:02 PM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: You wrote generically: "There is AN expert preference". Can you please provide the SPECIFIC name and location of this preference, or the specific "defaults write" command? My reason for asking: Searching the Expert

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-16 Thread F. Alfredo Rego
Rich, You wrote generically: “There is AN expert preference”. Can you please provide the SPECIFIC name and location of this preference, or the specific “defaults write” command? My reason for asking: Searching the Expert Preferences help for “backspace from the insertion point” doesn’t lead

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Todd Wachob
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Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Fletcher Sandbeck
Ugh, yeah, you're right. I was focused on the problem at hand, but changing that setting like that would be pretty irritating in the long run. [fletcher] > On Jun 14, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Fletcher Sandbeck

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Rich Siegel
On Monday, June 12, 2017, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: If I have a line with several spaces, and I hit backspace at the end of the line, it erases the entire line instead of only the last space. How do I adjust BBEdit to only delete one space? I looked through the prefs but

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Rich Siegel
On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: > It seems like BBEdit will delete spaces in multiples defined by the > "Tab width" setting in the Editor Defaults section of the Preferences. > If you set this to 1 then it will backspace like you want. You will also

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Fletcher Sandbeck
It seems like BBEdit will delete spaces in multiples defined by the "Tab width" setting in the Editor Defaults section of the Preferences. If you set this to 1 then it will backspace like you want. [fletcher] > On Jun 12, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > > If

How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
If I have a line with several spaces, and I hit backspace at the end of the line, it erases the entire line instead of only the last space. How do I adjust BBEdit to only delete one space? I looked through the prefs but couldn't find any relevant setting. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public