Hi, unlike other editors Sublime has several pitfalls where it will unselect before I can replace inside a selection. Can’t Sublime handle it just like Visual Studio etc? I don’t see what’s so good about it in Sublime, it seems to be just broken?
Selection for text replacing goes away
ThomSmith
#2
I don’t quite understand what you’re saying. It would be helpful if you could explain:
- What steps you are performing.
- What happens as a result.
- What you want/expect to happen instead.
It may be that the behavior you desire can be achieved via options or key bindings, or more generally via a package.
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kliop
#3
Hi, thank you for your quick reply. I try to name two of the “pitfalls”:
- using the mouse to set “In selection” to enabled => sometimes unselects
- using the Backspace key when editing the “Find what:” field => unselects (when there was only one character left in the field)
unselects = there will be no more selection in the main document
For some reason this seems to happen to me more than to other users. Maybe I have to always create the selection in the last step. But I’m accustomed to Visual Studio and the like.
Edit: What I want to happen instead: I’d like the selection to stay because it has not served any purpose. The moment I enter (using also Backspace) what I want to replace is not the right time for Sublime to undo the selecting.
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