GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 326921
whitespace selection and tab key issues
Last modified: 2014-07-20 16:48:48 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #309860 +++ Intro: ------------- Most GUI based text editors allow one to double click to select the whitespace before and between words. This is quite helpful when writing in a language that whitespace is important such as python. It is also helpful when trying to line up indentation in other programming languages. This functionality was implemented recently, however it has two issues which make it much less useful than it could be. Issues: ------------- 1) If one double-clicks and selects the whitespace at the beginning of a line in which the first non-whitespace character is a special character (like a double quote (python doc string), or less than bracket (html)) the selection includes that special character .... it shouldn't. eg: (double click beginning of line below:) <space><space><space><space>" Python Doc String " ========Selected============== ^^ Those last two chars shouldn't be selected. 2) After selection, hitting the tab key keeps the selection (it shouldn't) and additionally it moves only the text after the special characters!!! (very, very strange) ;) Oh, and please don't forget the GtkEntry component as well. Thanks.
Isn't anyone interested in this bug? It makes gedit useless for many operations. :(
The second part of this bug is fixed. The first part is a duplicate of bug #580495. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 580495 ***