selection anchor (toggle)
Submitted by on Friday, 16 September, 2005 - 20:42
For decades (ever since I switched from punchcards 
), I've set ^Q to do what you might call "toggle selection". That is, normally my cursor movement keys move the cursor without selecting text. But if I press (and then release) ^Q, then the cursor keys create a selection, as if I were holding the shift key down. Pressing ^Q again turns off selection, as do ^C, ^X etc.
It isn't obvious to me that there is any direct/ simple way to do this kind of toggling in jEdit. (I could write a bunch of macros for all the various cursor movement keys, but not otherwise.) Am I correct?
), I've set ^Q to do what you might call "toggle selection". That is, normally my cursor movement keys move the cursor without selecting text. But if I press (and then release) ^Q, then the cursor keys create a selection, as if I were holding the shift key down. Pressing ^Q again turns off selection, as do ^C, ^X etc.It isn't obvious to me that there is any direct/ simple way to do this kind of toggling in jEdit. (I could write a bunch of macros for all the various cursor movement keys, but not otherwise.) Am I correct?
