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    • EkopalypseE
      Ekopalypse
      last edited by

      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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                                          • Speedy MercerS
                                            Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
                                            last edited by

                                            @Alan-Kilborn No, It’s not a “fatal flaw” but when you have been used to doing it that way for several decades, ya tend to notice and miss it. ;-)

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