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Keyboard text selection differs from OSX default behaviour
Hi there,
One of the primary reasons I use Chocolat is the native feel within OS X. With text selection via the keyboard however, the behaviour differs from it’s native OS X counterpart. Namely when using alt, shift, arrow to select a dashed word or text.
I-should-be-able-to-cycle-through-each-word-in-this-rule with the shortcut mentioned yet in Chocolat the whole rule gets selected. Dito for cursor navigation which skips from the start to the end. Dashed should be treated as a space per OS X behaviour, which would be great to see in a future update.
I made a screen recording to show the behaviour in pages differ from Chocolat (1MB .mov file): http://cl.ly/dqDR (note it should say alt instead of cmd).
Edit: the same goes for dots which makes renaming in the sidebar awkward compared to doing so in Finder.
Chocolat v3.1.7
Cheers.
Yes, that is not expected.
In some languages it is desirable for dashes to be included in what is a "word". for instance in HTML you want the foo-bar
in class="foo-bar"
to be one word. Same in lisp where hyphenated identifiers are often used.
As a workaround you can use ctrl-shift-[left/right].
Yeah the problem is that -[CHFullTextView wordsCharacterSet]
does not use CHWordCharacterStringForScope()
, so it's just doing a very simplistic "@$-_".
I've decided to revert to the system behaviour, since it is more important to have correct word movement in (possibly non-alphabetic) comments, rather than correct movement in code.
If editing code becomes too annoying, I'll add it back for certain languages.
Although it is very annoying that the system behaviour is to treat "foo.bar" as one word.