Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

[Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave culture-libre org>]

Le 2013-09-25 00:31, Allan Day a écrit :
> Sticking to the topic of text selections specifically (since general
> discussions on mailing lists are the road to hell) - we won't make
> changes in this area unless there are clear benefits to users. I 
> think
> there is a compelling case to be made for improvements to text
> selections, and it is something that people will appreciate. I also
> think we can make changes without too much disruption. The devil will
> be in the detail of course, and we'll have to wait for the designs to
> be fleshed out before having a serious discussion.

Are you thinking of generelized way to make squared selection and so on 
in all GtkTextView and the like? One common case I may think of is 
selecting a text column in a pdf with multi-column page layout. 
Libre/Open-office provide a switch in the status-bar.

One may also think of regexp selection, or an equivalent 
regexp-crafting wizard, wich enable to select lines/paraphs containing a 
string. I read somewhere that gedit now support regexp search, so I 
guess that a large part of what's needed for enabling such a selection 
method is already there.

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