How to drag selected text to area currently off screen
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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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This is something that, if I ever finish PySnack, I will definitely do too.
Bring the users onboard. :-D -
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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At least it wasn’t “Neil” that said that! :-)
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No, it was the OP.
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@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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@Ekopalypse said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:
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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No, this is from the scintilla thread I linked previously.
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@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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@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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@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 issuebutton, on the right !I wasn’t aware of it. Once I went there, the instructions were easy to follow.
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@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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The underlying control used by notepad++ to color your code.
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Issue entered here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8110
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@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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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. -
Okay, so… where do I go from here?
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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. -
@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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@Alan-Kilborn that is not true, 3 of ~10 people I recommended N++, noticed it. I noticed it right after switching, but I thought, that ovious bug will be fixed in 1-2 minor versions. That was more than 10 years ago and almost nobody of the non-nerds will create an issue or a ticket, and developers all over the world are happy, that normal people won’t get to places like here that often, right? Thanks to @Speedy-Mercer to write this down here! By the way, it is still not fixed and ctrl+x … ctrl+v is not the solution. Is it fixed in “scintilla” right now? I have no idea.
