Jordan Brown

It's probably not helpful to characterize one style as superior to the other, because opinions on the question differ. What's clear is that they are different, and deliberately so, and...

Such a function might well return not only metrics, but the actual geometry data so that your OpenSCAD program could process it - e.g., to apply bends.

Ctrl+C works from the Console in Windows. (But only when the Console has focus, as hinted by the fact that the highlight goes away when focus moves.) But Edit/Copy does...

In Windows, Ctrl+A does work in the Console. (Windows 10, but I doubt that's relevant.)

I'm not sure it's what the OP is thinking of, but I wanted this (and implemented my own) some time ago. ``` vals = [ [ 1, [10,10,10] ], [...

When thinking about these behaviors, don't forget the "undocked into separate windows" mode. I'm an "all separate windows" person, at least on my desktop system. Editor, console, and view are...

While you're there, please fix "does not exists" to be "does not exist". (And I would remove the "Try ..."; I don't think it adds value.)

Note that the image shown drops out all of the Ctrl+Shift+Letter shortcuts, except for Ctrl+Shift+F. It drops Z, I, C, and D.

As Torsten says, I looked into this and fixed a number of issues as part of the textmetrics work. https://forum.openscad.org/several-variations-on-text-ttb-btt-and-valign-and-halign-seem-wrong-td31310.html is, I believe, a discussion of the issues raised here....

Also note that you have said `valign="top"` and what you get has the origin at the *bottom* of the text.