Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.0) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux The fact that selections get overwritten if you press a key becomes very deadly as soon as two views of the same document are open. (You search in the first view, Alt+Tab to the second view, type something and lose a bit of source code without noting. After a week, my code was a mess ;-(. Activating the option "Persistent selections" is only a workaround. The kwrite manual explicitly mentions this option: ------------------------------- Overwrite Selections Any keyed character input or paste operation will replace the selected text. ------------------------------- Deactivating this option would solve the problem, but the option does not seem to exist in Kwrite/Kate! Would be great if it could be (re)implemented.. Thanks a lot, Elmar
IMO, the real problem is that the selection is a child of the document rather than the view. This is a misdesign, and allways were.
On Saturday 27 November 2004 15:22, Anders Lund wrote: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94027 > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From anders alweb dk 2004-11-27 15:22 ------- > IMO, the real problem is that the selection is a child of the document > rather than the view. This is a misdesign, and allways were. very true, this should be handled on per view stage, for kde 4.0 the selection interface therefor should move over to the view (same for block selection interface) cu Christoph
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 01:49 am, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > very true, this should be handled on per view stage, for kde 4.0 the > selection interface therefor should move over to the view (same for block > selection interface) I have code for this in one of the branches... I'm hoping for some time to merge a few of the features soonish (having troubles with my build environment at the moment) Cheers, Hamish.
selection is now per view will be in KDE 3.5, solves this issues