Extend selection in Lister

[amach]

Hi, Christian!

Could you please improve Lister to allow one to extend his text selection (e.g. select something, and then hold <Shift> and click somewhere else) ???

Thanks.
Amach

[Clo]

Hi, Christian!
Could you please improve Lister to allow one to extend his text selection (e.g. select something, and then hold <Shift> and click somewhere else) ???
Thanks.
Amach

Hi!
This should be often useful (if possible)
¤ I support your idea.
Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry, currently separate text selection areas aren't supported.

[amach]

No, Christian, I'm not talking about selecting two different blocks of text, but:

• 1) select a tiny block where I want to be the beginning of my selection
  2) scroll to another point of the text where I want to end the selection
  3) hold Shift
  4) click where selection should end

The result should be a bigger selection beginning where that tiny block beginned and ending where I clicked holding Shift. Amost any text editor can do that and it's useful to select big blocks of text delimited by specific strings that you don't know where they are. In the current version, you need to find the block beginning, then start selection there and scroll selection down until you find the desired end, which is absolutely not easy in some cases. The best should be selecting the beginning (which can be found through F7), select a tiny block, search the end via scroll and/or F7, and then hold Shift and click there. Then we could copy that big block or do anything else.

Amach

[ghisler(Author)]

Ah, I see - that's a good idea! What you can do is hold down the left mouse button and PageUp/PageDown to the end.

[amach]

Ah, I see - that's a good idea! What you can do is hold down the left mouse button and PageUp/PageDown to the end.

But you cannot use F7 in this process to find out where your desired end is...

If you're handling some log files, what you consider the end of your selection can be mixed whithin many other characters, making it very difficult to find by looking it in the screen. Again, the best would be if we could search it with F7 and/or scroll.

Amach

[amach]

Ah, I see - that's a good idea! What you can do is hold down the left mouse button and PageUp/PageDown to the end.

But you cannot use F7 in this process to find out where your desired end is...

If you're handling some log files, what you consider the end of your selection can be mixed whithin many other characters, making it very difficult to find by looking it in the screen. Again, the best would be if we could search it with F7 and/or scroll.

Amach

In fact, you CAN use F7 while holding down mouse button to extend selection, but you CAN'T release mouse button neither to click anywhere in F7 dialog box (or else your selection will be cancelled) nor to type what you can find (it's not much comfortable to type while holding the mouse button).

[SanskritFritz]

There is a poll about this subject, please vote, many of us try to pusuade Christian about having a cursor in Lister...
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2338