This is a wish/idea for some slightly "smarter" behaviour with the interaction of the arrow-keys and selected text. If I search for something within a document, say a particular variable name, then it appears highlighted. Pressing the left_arrow moves cursor 1 to the left of the start of the word (this is right); pressing the right_arrow moves the cursor 1 to the right of the start of the word (I think it should go right to the END of the word). (Similar behaviour should also apply to words selected by double-clicking, or to lines selected by triple-clicking). An example might make this clearer: Here is a line of text, in my document. I then use Ctrl-F to search for the word "example", which comes up higlighted. (I've shown it in Caps): "Hello World, this is an EXAMPLE of what I mean" 12 3 * Pressing the left_arrow key moves the cursor to position 1. * Pressing the right_arrow key moves the cursor to position 2 (at the moment), My wish is for it to be position 3 instead. The reason for this is that it makes it faster to make edits during refactoring. For example, if I had some variables named "example1" and "example2", and wanted to search for all instances of "example*" , changing some of them to "example3". My wish would significantly reduce the number of right-arrow-presses required. I hope that's clear, and you like my idea. Thanks for a wonderful program.
Oops! My example appears to have line-wrapped, obscuring what I meant: "Hello World, this is an EXAMPLE of what I mean" 12 3
Really sorry for the bugspam - it's done it again! "Hello World, this is an EXAMPLE of what I mean" 12 3 position 1 is after the "n" of "an" position 2 is after the first "E" of "example" position 4 is after the last "E" of example.
https://phabricator.kde.org/D19621
*** Bug 354696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Git commit 5c94789d28ea09ad1b340f3ddaba8208886b19d2 by Nate Graham, on behalf of loh tar. Committed on 11/03/2019 at 02:48. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. ViewPrivate: Make deselection by arrow keys more handy Summary: This patch move the cursor to the start or end of the selection instead of simple one position into the key direction FIXED-IN: 5.57 Reviewers: #ktexteditor, dhaumann Reviewed By: #ktexteditor, dhaumann Subscribers: cullmann, brauch, dhaumann, ngraham, kwrite-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, #ktexteditor Tags: #kate, #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19621 M +61 -0 autotests/src/kateview_test.cpp M +2 -5 autotests/src/kateview_test.h M +34 -12 src/view/kateview.cpp https://commits.kde.org/ktexteditor/5c94789d28ea09ad1b340f3ddaba8208886b19d2