On Oct 29, 2014, at 1:30 AM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 28, 2014, at 4:03 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a patch that enables "word selection mode" on double click. It >>>> seems to work well. The patch is here: >>>> >>>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7890/0001-Fix-9160-and-7890.patch >>>> >>>> The only major issue is that when dragging to the left, you cannot >>>> highlight the first word. Does anyone have an idea for where to fix >>>> this? >>>> >>>> The following patch might give a clue as to where the problem is. When >>>> applied, you can select the first word. It is not meant to be taken as >>>> a correct patch: >>>> >>>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7890/0002-HACK-just-to-show-where-the-problem-is.patch >>>> >>>> Scott >>> >>> Does this mean that upon a click-and-a-half, dragging extends the selection >>> by whole words? >> >> Yes. See http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7890 >> >> Scott > > I just looked at the patch, and I not understanding it but recalling how LyX > currently works, I should add that after a multi-word selection has been > made, either in character-selection mode (including possibly partial words) > or word-selection mode, there should be no cursor. Gone. Only the selected > text, highlighted. Lyx currently shows selected text _and_ a blinking cursor, > which is wrong by Mac standards and arguably just wrong. The reason, I > suppose, is that having selected text and a blinking cursor present confusing > signals: where will text appear if I type now? The answer is, of course, that > all of the selected text will be replaced with the newly typed text, and the > replacement will begin as soon as the first new character is typed. Thus, any > blinking cursor before typing new text is sending the wrong message and is > also irrelevant. > > Jerry
And of course the cursor reappears to the right side of the first typed new character. Jerry
