How to drag selected text to area currently off screen
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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 !
Now, I verified, for instance, with the Microsoft text editor
write.exe:-
Run the DOS command
write license.txt -
Select a block of text to be moved to a remote part of the current file
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While pressing the left mouse button, move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, or to any other direction
=> The selection remains active and the screen scrolls towards the selected direction ;-))
- As soon as you reach the location where you need to move ( or copy ) your selection, just release the left mouse button
Remark :
Microsoft
Worddoes have this same behaviour, too ! However, the basic MicrosoftNotepad.exeeditor cannot reproduce it
I’m really wondering how I could have missed this obvious mouse gesture since more than a decade ?! I’ve never noticed that this mouse gesture was forbidden, when using Notepad++ :-(
In my opinion, this would be a nice improvement and would make the operation of Notepad++ even more natural ;-))
Best Regards,
guy038
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@guy038 said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:
@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 !@guy038 Could you [ since it is locked! ;-) ] perhaps update the FAQ entry for this? At the very least maybe add the
click on the green New issue buttonverbage from above?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.
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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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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. -
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.
No one can say that the OP wasn’t patient. :-D -
@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.
