| Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158467] |
Wed, 12 May 2004 14:56  |
Eclipse User |
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I have smart cursor positioning selected in the Java editor typing
preferences, and I like the way it works for the most part. What I find
annoying is that ctrl-arrow moves past the end of a word to the beginning
of the next word, over punctuation marks.
I'd like to see it work more like mouse selection, where double-clicking
highlights the word up to but not including spaces or punctuation.
I checked the bug list and didn't find anything. If this
annoys anyone else, I'll submit a feature request.
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| Re: Mouse selection vs. ctrl-arrow [message #158568 is a reply to message #158514] |
Thu, 13 May 2004 09:29  |
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:53:29 +0200, Kariem Hussein wrote:
> I assume this is the standard behaviour for Windows. I just tested it.
> The problem might not be the selection itself but pasting the text after
> copying it into the clipboard.
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> Something like "smart-paste" as in MS Word would be a nice-to-have:
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> Try this in Word
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> - Select a word with CTRL-SHIFT-Arrow from the middle of a sentence
> - CTRL-X (cut)
> - The clipboard should now hold ("yourword ")
> - Move the cursor to the end of a sentence (just before the ".")
> - CTRL-V (paste)
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> => it inserts the following string: " yourword". Because that is the way
> it fits best.
I'm working on Linux, so I'm not familiar with this feature in Word. I was
hoping for an option to make the shift-ctrl-arrow combination move to the
end of the word instead of the beginning of the next word, or at least
allow an option for it.
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