| Selecting one line of text in the Eclipse 3.2 Java editor [message #233552] |
Mon, 31 July 2006 16:08  |
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Originally posted by: rongwrook.yahoo.com
Hello all,
There is a change in how text selection works in the Java
Editor in Eclipse 3.2
If I click at the right end of a line, and hold the mouse
down and drag leftwards, always staying on the same line,
at first the text is selected from the end of the line to
where the mouse is, and gets highlighted in blue.
Then when the cursor reaches the left margin, suddenly
the whole line goes white and I have nothing selected.
If I move the cursor rightwards again, when I cross the
left margin, it "pops" and I get the whole line again.
This is really irritating. It forces me to position with 1-pixel
accuracy for the simple, common case of selecting one line.
Evidently it's a change. (There was some funny behavior of a similar
sort before, but not so bad -- it was only unbearable over my slow
VPN connection.) Somebody thinks this is a feature. Does anyone know
where it is documented, what it's called, what the motivation is,
or, especially, any way to turn it off?
Thanks
jim
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| Re: Selecting one line of text in the Eclipse 3.2 Java editor [message #233622 is a reply to message #233552] |
Wed, 02 August 2006 01:32  |
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Originally posted by: tom_eicher.ch.ibm.com
Hi Jim,
the behavior you describe is not intended and I cannot reproduce -
please try to find out whether this is caused by an additional plug-in
or the Eclipse base install. If you can reproduce, please file a bug
against platform-text.
If you are running on a Java6 VM, also check
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=141751
-tom
Jim Goodwin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> There is a change in how text selection works in the Java
> Editor in Eclipse 3.2
>
> If I click at the right end of a line, and hold the mouse
> down and drag leftwards, always staying on the same line,
> at first the text is selected from the end of the line to
> where the mouse is, and gets highlighted in blue.
>
> Then when the cursor reaches the left margin, suddenly
> the whole line goes white and I have nothing selected.
>
> If I move the cursor rightwards again, when I cross the
> left margin, it "pops" and I get the whole line again.
>
> This is really irritating. It forces me to position with 1-pixel
> accuracy for the simple, common case of selecting one line.
>
> Evidently it's a change. (There was some funny behavior of a similar
> sort before, but not so bad -- it was only unbearable over my slow
> VPN connection.) Somebody thinks this is a feature. Does anyone know
> where it is documented, what it's called, what the motivation is,
> or, especially, any way to turn it off?
>
> Thanks
> jim
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