Re: how does BBEdit do it? (was Re: A few issues...)

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From: Jon Guyer (jguyer@his.com)
Date: 12 Mar 01, 03:57 EST


From: Jon Guyer <jguyer@his.com>
Subject: Re: how does BBEdit do it? (was Re: A few issues...)

At 5:02 PM +0100 3/11/01, Lars Hellström wrote:

>One idea for a key for (i) could be Escape, i.e., after an Escape the
>_next_ shift+(whatever+)arrow would contract instead of extending the
>selection. This would admittedly be awkward if you want to contract by more
>than one step, but I believe the most common reason for contracting is that
>one has extended the selection one step too far and in that situation an
>escape is kind of logical.

That's a possiblity, thanks. The code I posted uses the <control> key 
as an additional modifier, which seems to work OK (and is unbound). 
Some older keyboards don't have a <control> key, though.

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   Jonathan E. Guyer
   <http://www.his.com/jguyer/>

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