Re: [9fans] An acme question

[John Floren <john@jfloren.net>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> Here's something for a brief respite from linux bashing....
>
> In acme, at present a single click positions the cursor, a
> double click selects either the word under the cursor or the
> entire line, depending on the cursor position.
>
> What I would like to do is to the change logic as follows: If
> you double *on* a word, the word is selected. If you double
> click on white space or a bracket, a whole block is selected,
> where a block is defined by matching brackets -- (), {} or [].
> This property should be settable on a per window basis.
>
> Example: given
>
> { fee [({ foo bar}) [and so on]] }
>           1 2   3456           7
>
> Double clicking at 1 selects foo,
> at 2 or 3 selects the phrase { foo bar},
> at 4 selects the phrase ({ foo bar}),
> at 5 selects the phrase [({ foo bar}) [and so on]],
> at 6 selects the phrase [and so on],
> at 7 selects the entire { fee [({ foo bar}) [and so on]] } etc.
> Note: a block need not fit on one line.
>
> A further enhancement: doubleclicking in a selected block
> expands the selection to the surrounding block, without moving
> the cursor.
>
> Is this doable or too painful?  I took a quick look but
> couldn't immediately see how.  If doable, how would I go about
> it?  I was thinking of keeping a list of matched string pairs
> (REs might be too powerful) and look for one of left strings
> earlier in the file. When one is found, look for the matching
> right string later in the file. If none found, select to the
> very end.
>
> Surely someone has already tried this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --bakul
>
>

Acme can already do most of those things, except that when you double
click on the space between two words ("foo bar"). Since you can't
really click on a character, rather you can only click between two
characters, it ends up selecting the word rather than the phrase. I
personally think this is quite ok.

John