[Qt-creator] add one more to that previous email

[Matthias Ettrich]

On Tuesday 25 November 2008 05:34:17 pm ext Adam Higerd wrote:
> Nathan Carter wrote:
> > On the Mac, we expect all our editors, when we triple-click, to
> > highlight the entire line/paragraph and thenceforth be in line/
> > paragraph-selection mode.  This is not the behavior I observe in Qt
> > Creator, and I keep running into it because I have (from all my other
> > UI experiences) the habit of triple-click-and-drag to select a big
> > block of lines.
> >
> > Nathan
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> Seconded, and I don't even do most of my editing on a Mac -- that's the
> behavior I get out of most other editors even on Linux and Windows.
>
> I wouldn't even have a significant problem with it not going into
> line-select mode, because I can always drag my mouse along the right
> edge of the screen, but Qt Creator right now doesn't even keep the whole
> selected line selected when you start dragging; this is considerably
> problematic. (Try it: the line appears selected, then when you start
> moving the mouse the selection starts over at the point of the initial
> click.)


We'll look into supporting mac-like tripple-click-enabled-line-selection-mode, 
it's more of a Qt issue, though.

Until then, you can select blocks the Visual Studio way on the line numbers 
(assuming you have kept those visible). One click selects the line you 
clicked on, a drag selection works also line-wise.

 Matthias