On 03/09/2024 04:22 PM, Little Girl via Users wrote: > Hey there, > > H via Users wrote: > >> Tried your modification but it still does not work properly. > I'm sorry. I had high hopes that it would. > >> Could I ask you try to select an entire line using SHIFT-ALT-L, then >> extend your selection one or more lines down using SHIFT-downarrow >> but then change your mind and instead extend the selection one or >> more lines up using SHIFT-L going above your original selection. >> Does this work? > I saw your other message in which you corrected this to say that I > should press Shift+Alt+L to select a paragraph, then change > my mind, and then press Shift+up arrow to try to select lines above > the existing selection. That slowly unselects my existing selection, > one line at a time, and then starts selecting one line at a time of > text above it. > >> And, does it work regardless of whether the lines below/above your >> original selection are longer than your original selected line? > I thought I'd answer this for all of these selections. The Shift+A+L > selects the entire paragraph. The Shift+down arrow and the Shift+up > arrow each select one visible line at a time, not one wrapped line, > so my cursor jumps down or up by only one line each time time I press > the down arrow or up arrow. It doesn't care about the content and > whether it should be considered a line because it's wrapped. It's only > interested in the actual visible lines. > >> Which version of geany are you running and what environment? > I'm using Geany 1.38 under Kubuntu 22.04 LTS on a desktop computer > and I keep the operating system fully up-to-date. All of its software > is from the Ubuntu repositories. > OK, we are in agreement, ie while you can select one entire line using SHIFT-ALT-L, one cannot extend the selection by entire lines up/down.
If anyone knows how to accomplish this, I would like to hear. I am surprised that I seem to be the first to have a need for this? I used to use Visual Slickedit which was very powerful. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@lists.geany.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.geany.org
