Btw, what you describe is similar to the behaviour of gedit (gtk), but LyX behaviour is the same as the one of kate (qt)... So it seems that there is no general consensus. There is a notable difference in what happens when you move (arrows) with a selection going on: with the current behaviour, the cursor is shown and you will move to the right or left of that position. With the behaviour you describe, the only rational thing is that if you go left you will move from the start of the selection, if you move right you will move from the end of it.
A/ On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:30 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
