On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:30 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.
Thanks for taking a look, Jerry. With our current implementation, LyX relies a lot on the cursor. It has to have a position because subsequent LFUNs depend on it. We could just not show it, but it will still be there (invisible), on the left, or the right of the selected word. This is in fact what causes the behavior that if you drag to the left you will not select the word that you double-clicked. Scott
