'Command+a' to Incrementally selects levels of text
Reported by Christopher Stevenson | January 5th, 2011 @ 11:49 AM
I'm not sure where I've used this before but pressing 'command+a' would first select the word, then the line, then the paragraph then the whole document.
Textmate currently uses different shortcuts for each level of text (word, line, scope, document) which is too fussy to use and it's easy to just bash away at 'command-a' until you have the whole document selected.
(Apologies for the poor spelling in the title, I accidentally pressed 'enter' before I was done and cannot figure out how to edit the title).
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Erik Johansson January 5th, 2011 @ 04:13 PM
- Assigned user set to “rsms”
Shouldn't cmd + a just select the whole document? Feels like that is the standard behavior.
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rsms January 6th, 2011 @ 05:51 PM
- Tag set to “feature, text, ux”
This is a nice idea.
Mathematica has a neat related feature where the selection is increased for each key press (defaults to
C-.) with respect to the documents syntax.However, we will not change the default behavior of Cmd+A since that is a truly standardized way of selecting all which is a feature used very frequently by many people.
In the case of a document without any underlying syntactical information, we could resort to doing as suggested and treat text in as a simple structure. For example:
Document | +-- Paragraph | +-- Line | +-- Word | +-- CharacterThere's an ongoing project to implement "semantic information". Work in progress is documented in this article: https://github.com/rsms/kod/wiki/Text-parser-2
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rsms January 6th, 2011 @ 05:51 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
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