[Qt-creator] Control over jumping text caret position to text separators

[Orgad Shaneh]

On Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior check "Enable built-in camel
case navigation".


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Peter Pearson <peter at thefoundry.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any option in Qt Creator (2.52 on Linux) to change the way the
> main text editor allows you to jump the text caret position
> along/through words?
>
> It used to be the cast (pre 2.2 or something) that holding down Ctrl and
> pressing the left/right arrows would jump to the next word after a space
> or special character, but I think 2.3 changed this to stop the jumps at
> camelcase words, so if you have the following code:
>
> LightPositionSamples samples;
>
> It used to be possible to start at the beginning of the line, hold down
> Ctrl + Shift and press the right arrow key and select all of
> "LightPositionSamples" to replace it. It's not so easy now, given the
> camel case stopping, as the caret stops at P then S.
>
> Similarly, if you have a member variable called "m_integrator"
> you can't select the whole thing, it stops at the "_" and "i" characters.
>
> On top of that, there seems to be a bug with this which means that if
> you have the line from above:
> LightPositionSamples samples;
>
> and have the caret after the space, and hold down Ctrl and backspace, it
> doesn't stop before the space and deletes the "Samples " part instead.
>
> I can't see any options in the Options dialog to control this - am I
> missing something, or is it worth creating a feature request / bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Pearson
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