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Proposal: text entry highlight/select functionality #98
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Hm, the first thing that comes to my mind is that |
@marcusolsson that could work however my title for this issue is a bit of a misnomer as what we're talking about is less about highlighting and more about selecting the text; so that it can all be erased with a single backspace instead of having to backspace through the complete text. In that sense it's more than just a style issue... |
Selection is definitely on the roadmap. Both using mouse and programmatically, to define ranges. I don't have any specific solution in mind but here are some thoughts:
Basic functionality would include:
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@marcusolsson aye makes sense except I still think selection and highlighting go hand-in-hand so "content-space" wouldn't really work entirely; after-all you want to be able to tell that you selected text (by highlighting it in some way) that's going to effects view space. |
Basically I'd like to be able to highlight text in an entry without modifying it.
One use for this (my use) is a MUD client where you want to highlight the input text (automatically) to be able to erase it all with a single backspace (as an alternative to automatically clearing the text for the player).
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