[WDSCI-L] Re: Poll on using both WDSCi and ADTS

[adrian <stori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern Hamberg wrote:

> OK, if I report this as a PMR, will it get fixed, or is CODE locked 
> down? I consider it a bug, not a feature.  ;-)

The CODE Editor is, so far as I know, in major-problems-only maintenance 
mode.  This particular restriction is there because of complex 
implementation details, which are quite impossible to tackle in the DBCS 
environment (among other)...

> > > BTW, another behavior that has always been a little irritating - 
> > > let's say that I have selected a few lines by dragging down while the 
> > > cursor is at the start of the lines. If I click on the line 
> > > immediately below the selection, and at the beginning of the line, 
> > > before the first character but not in the sequence number area, it 
> > > does not deselect - I need to click somewhere else.
> >
> > If the last line of the block is selected in its entirety, then most 
> > probably the cursor blinking at the start of the line that follows is 
> > actually the end point of the stream selection (you may verify this by 
> > entering, on the LPEX command line: block.bottomElement)...  Now 
> > clicking on that particular point (or even inside the SEU prefix area 
> > of that line) won't clear the selection.
>
> Kind of what I thought. Now I tried something - I clicked within the 
> selection and it cleared it - only when clicking at this location (at 
> the cursor when cursor is at end of selection) does it NOT clear the 
> selection. Same applies if the selection ends within a line.
>
> Seems odd to have this very specific exception. There are many times 
> I've needed this not to be how it works, usually when I've selected 
> something, then want to deselect right away, without having to move the 
> mouse or go to the keyboard.

The idea is to allow you to further extend the selection with the mouse. 
 Otherwise, you'll be forced to switch to Shift+arrow_key.