Hi,

If I try to select a block of text while holding the ALT key, I get very strange behaviour.

I'm not sure how to explain how it should work, but Microsoft Word has the correct behaviour.

Cheers,

John

Strange behaviour? What do you mean?

BTW, PhpED is and IDE while Microsoft Word is a text processor, please compare apples with apples.

Ok, in visual studio if you hold ALT, then click in a block of text, the way it selects text is exactly the same as in word.

cut and paste this into word:


function render()
{
$tmp = '<div class="report_summary">';
$tmp .= '<h1 class="report_header"">'. $this->_title .'</h1>';
$tmp .= '<div class="report_summary_2">';

$tmp .= $this->_contents;

$tmp .= '</div></div>';
return $tmp;
}

Now, hold ALT, then click on the RED <, now drag the mouse down to the line $tmp .= '</div></div>';

Now drag the mouse out to the right to select all text (I have made what should be selected bold):

function render()
{
$tmp = '<div class="report_summary">';
$tmp .= '<h1 class="report_header"">'. $this->_title .'</h1>';
$tmp .= '<div class="report_summary_2">';

$tmp .= $this->_contents;

$tmp .= '</div></div>';
return $tmp;
}

I can't explain it very well, but try selecting blocks of code using the ALT key in word, or Visual Studio and then in PHPEd, and you will see the difference.

Cheers,

John

Well, I tried Visual Studio and could not find anything that special it does when selection is done with Alt. It behaves exactly the same as when Shift is held down.
It just makes rectangular selection in those cases. To do it in PhpED you have to hold down Shift. Alt is not supported for selection with mouse, but is supported for selection with keyboard.