[Konsole-devel] [Bug 158726] New: make it easier to not select final newline

[Matthew Woehlke]

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158726         
           Summary: make it easier to not select final newline
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: mw_triad users sourceforge net


Version:           2.1 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

One selects the trailing newline by selecting past the final "real character". This is good and desirable (as discussed to death in e.g. bug 89299 and bug 152774 ;-)) but is problematic in that the selection is very touchy, making it hard to *not* select the newline. To hopefully satisfy the legitimate complaints of people that do not want the trailing newline, we should make it easier to select without the trailing newline.

One thought is that to get the newline, one must select ~5 characters past the final character, or some percentage (maybe 40%) of the remainder of the line, whichever is smaller. This way there is a much bigger 'hit area' in which one can select the whole line without trailing newline while the 'hit area' for selecting with the newline is still large and easy to hit, as opposed to the current behavior where the 'hit area' to select without the newline is about the size of one character cell.