Re: Unwanted sticky selections

This has been this way forever - there's some reason for this, lost in recent 
antiquity.  ;-)

There are a couple copy modes that have an affect - rectangle, character, and 
line. And various special key sequences that move, copy, delete, etc., the 
selection. This goes back to other editors, I believe. When I run into the 
thing you describe, I just use Alt-U, which unselects.

It's probably related to how I cannot click on the position right after a 
selection to unselect, as I can in almost every other editor I know of. Someone 
at IBM kind of explained this, but it is frustrating. I mean, I have just 
selected the thing, I don't really want the selection, I should be able to 
clear the selection by clicking where I am, without having to move the mouse. 
But not with RSE LPEX.

Learn to love Alt-U - it is your friend!

Oy!
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Dave Murvin <davem@xxxxxxxx> 

> I have been having problem with "sticky" selections. If I double 
> click on some code, the code segment is selected. Then if I single 
> click on some other line of code, the code previously selected is not 
> unselected, or the selection is moved to the line I single clicked 
> on. Sometimes the selection grows to select multiple lines. This is 
> making my use of cut and paste very hard to use. Its almost like the 
> selection logic has a mind of it's own. The menu selection 
> Edit/Deselect all will clear the selections. 
> 
> Is there some setting or fix for this? I am on Version 6.0 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Dave Murvin 
> DRM Enterprises, Inc. 
> 
> 
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