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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn
      last edited by

      In the interest of fairness, I attempted “text-drag-and-drop-with-hopeful-autoscroll” with the Scintilla demo editor, and it behaved exactly as Notepad++ does in this regard. Perhaps this is something the Scintilla component needs to support in order for Notepad++ to (easily) support it as well?

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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse
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        See https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/497/
        but that means Npp would have to update scintilla again, not sure this happens any time soon.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
          last edited by Alan Kilborn

          @Ekopalypse

          How come whenever I click on one of these Scintilla issue tracker links I feel like I always see Acknowledged. It is unlikely I will work on this. :-)

          I had said:

          I attempted “text-drag-and-drop-with-hopeful-autoscroll” with the Scintilla demo editor,

          I guess I tried a non-latest version. :-)

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            This is something that, if I ever finish PySnack, I will definitely do too.
            Bring the users onboard. :-D

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
              last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn

              What made me smile was that statement:

              after nearly 12 years of waiting I decided to take a shot. It is an important feature to me.

              :-D

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                last edited by

                @Ekopalypse

                At least it wasn’t “Neil” that said that! :-)

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by

                  @Alan-Kilborn

                  No, it was the OP.
                  No one can say that the OP wasn’t patient. :-D

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                  • Speedy MercerS
                    Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                    I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone misinterpret the feature request instructions like @Speedy-Mercer , but I suppose the instructions could be improved.

                    Cut me some slack, I’m unfamiliar with the way things work here, that’s why I asked for a little help. Yes, even us old geeks can be “newbies” when plopped into a new environment. ;-)

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                    • Speedy MercerS
                      Speedy Mercer @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @Ekopalypse said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      What made me smile was that statement:

                      after nearly 12 years of waiting I decided to take a shot. It is an important feature to me.

                      :-D

                      Where did that statement come from? I can’t find it in this thread yet Ekopalypse seems to think it was from me.

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse @Speedy Mercer
                        last edited by

                        @Speedy-Mercer

                        No, this is from the scintilla thread I linked previously.

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn @Speedy Mercer
                          last edited by

                          @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                          Cut me some slack

                          Apologies, there was certainly no ill intent towards you in what I said; if anything I was “picking on” the FAQ entry. :-)

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Speedy Mercer
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                            @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                            Where did that statement come from? I can’t find it in this thread yet Ekopalypse seems to think it was from me.

                            No, Eko doesn’t think it was from you. It’s from this link: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/497/

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                            • Speedy MercerS
                              Speedy Mercer @guy038
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                              @guy038 said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                              Hello @speedy-mercer, @alan-kilborn, and All,

                              @speedy-mercer, why didn’t you add a new issue directly at the official N++ issues tracker ?

                              https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

                              Simply, click on the green New issue button, on the right !

                              I wasn’t aware of it. Once I went there, the instructions were easy to follow.

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                              • Speedy MercerS
                                Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
                                last edited by Speedy Mercer

                                @Alan-Kilborn said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                Where did that statement come from? I can’t find it in this thread yet Ekopalypse seems to think it was from me.

                                No, Eko doesn’t think it was from you. It’s from this link: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/497/

                                Stupid question time, What IS “scintilla”? I noticed a reference to it in Notepad++'s settings. (sorry if “stupid newbie” question but, if the shoe fits…)

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                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @Speedy Mercer
                                  last edited by

                                  @Speedy-Mercer

                                  The underlying control used by notepad++ to color your code.

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                                  • Speedy MercerS
                                    Speedy Mercer
                                    last edited by

                                    Issue entered here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8110

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                                    • Speedy MercerS
                                      Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
                                      last edited by

                                      @Alan-Kilborn said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                      @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                      Where did that statement come from? I can’t find it in this thread yet Ekopalypse seems to think it was from me.

                                      No, Eko doesn’t think it was from you. It’s from this link: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/497/

                                      Ok, more stupid question time, when does scintilla version 4.3.1 get incorporated into Notepad++?

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                                      • EkopalypseE
                                        Ekopalypse
                                        last edited by

                                        It’s hard to say, in the past it wasn’t really like that,
                                        that a new scintilla version resulted in a new Npp version.
                                        Furthermore, as far as I understand, updates to scintilla
                                        are @Don-HO 's tasks - exclusively.

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                                        • Speedy MercerS
                                          Speedy Mercer
                                          last edited by

                                          Okay, so… where do I go from here?

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                                          • Alan KilbornA
                                            Alan Kilborn @Speedy Mercer
                                            last edited by

                                            @Speedy-Mercer

                                            where do I go

                                            You’re already there. You wait. :-)
                                            But in the meantime, how bad is ctrl+x … ctrl+v ?
                                            Apparently the thousands(?) of Notepad++ users have been using the keyboard way of doing it for 17 years and you are the first person to notice the mouse-drag-and-drop thing, so I don’t see it as a fatal-flaw-gotta-address-immediately kind of thing.

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