Left/Right keys on selection

[AlexTP]

...not like editors. Even with option "skip selectn". Sublime text: select block, press left/right, caret moves to other sel edge (left pressed at right edge) and SEL NOT KEEPED, caret just moves and no selection here. Synedit KEEPS sel on caret move. It's bad, for some ppl

[Martin_fr]

Tools > Editor, General: "Cursor skips selection"

Synedit KEEPS sel on caret move.

Only if "Persistent Selection" is on.

You can have "Cursor skips selection" WITHOUT "Persistent Selection"

Then press left at the end of selection, it goes to start of selection.

But right at the end of selection, will move caret, and selection will be gone

[AlexTP]

You dont see th point.
See: any text editor will jump to opposite sel edge (left/rt). And it REMOVES sel. Now I don't use "Persist sel" - i don't need it. And i still see that SE keeps sel.

It's other thing, "persist sel'.
Sublime text has NO persist sel. And it removes sel on left/rt.
SynWrite, my app, now removes sel, on left/rt

[Martin_fr]

Ah, now I see what you mean.

I never actually used that in any editor until now (and NOT every editor does). This was probably implemented upon somebodies request.

Feel free to add a request on mantis. Or in the IDE record a macro, and assign it.
IF SynEdit in your app, it is easy to intercept the keyhandling in the OnCommand event.


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The problem with this is, that there are way to many variations how this can behave. And they cant be all hardcoded.

It is the same with word wise navigation and deletion .... There are many many many variations....