[Qt-creator] ctrl-shift-arrow selecting includes whitespaces (with attachment)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:52:35AM +0100, Thorbjørn Lindeijer wrote:
> ext Boy Lenssen wrote:
> > What I would like is an option to treat (successive) whitespace as 
> > words. In case between two words a tab, space and a tab is located, or 5 
> > spaces after each other, they would be treated as one word.
> 
having suggested something similar myself before ...

> Personally I think this is too uncommon to be really worth making an 
> option for, but of course you can always make a patch and see how it 
> works. :)
> 
i finally realized where i saw direction-dependent word jumping before:
in the thunderbird composer. it feels very natural, except that it does
not see operators and such as separate tokens for obvious reasons.