Locked Selection + Column Edit

[allen]

Typing in column edit mode with selection locking enabled causes the text to be entered backwards.

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Aside: I was absolutely thrilled to see you could lock selections; this is a favorite feature of mine, and one that is hard to find.

[alex]

Thanks allen.

Yes, it is a bug. Would be fixed.

[allen]

I have them in my installed version.
probably it was not overwritten, because you have changed command.xml manually...

Yes, that was the case -- I just removed the file and then re-ran the installer.

This was not clear to me. Are you talking about Column Edit problem or Selection Lock problem?
Can you also refering to some editor which works as you have described, that I can check?

I'm referring to the behavior with lock+column.  When you type, it edits the selection no matter where the cursor is -- kind of neat. But if you move the cursor, then start typing, it will clear the selected text and start editing a 0width column again. I will post a different thread on what I really think lock selection is missing.

[alex]

Ok, I have understood. This is waht I mean that wrote that such combination working strange...
I would expect, that column mode at all should stop working, if you have moved cursor from the selection.

So, probably, the solution would be to only allow column edit if selection is in Column mode and cursor is on border of selection.

Would this be better?

But you are right, better to have separated topic for that or jsut continue one you already started.

[allen]

Yes, I think the most logical/intuitive approach would be as you suggested--column edit if you are at the edge of the selection; edit at cursor if you are away from the selection.

I don't know how difficult it would be to pull off on the programming end, but it might be interesting if column edit worked anywhere within the bounds of the column selection.  So you could move around within the selection and insert characters (in each row) from any column.  It's nonstandard, though, and probably be more work to pull off than value from the result.

[alex]

Ok, I would try my best