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

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks again, Adrian - that is interesting, about continuing the selection. 
No other editor I know of does this - that does not make this wrong, in my 
view, only different. I have  a feeling, however, that this intention is 
not documented in the help. I'm glad I kept asking about it.

Regards
Vern

At 02:57 PM 8/29/2004, you wrote:
> Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > > > 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.