Hello all! I am using Sublime 2 on Linux Manjaro (which is an arch build), and I have a weird bug that is stopping my development… if i try to select some text, then the cursor still moves and retains its positions, but the image of the cursor gets glued to end of the text i selected, and only moves when i select new text (but then it gets glued to the end of that selection). What can I do to fix this?
Weird bug found with sublime
qgates
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That’s normal behaviour, different to other editors due to Sublime’s multiselection and multicursor paradigm and modeless approach to selection. I’d suggest a little exploration of Sublime’s features and “play-time” to get used to it.
Migrants from other editors may find this a little strange at first, but in many use-cases it’s much more powerful, at the expense of in some where it’s a little more limiting (column selection and manipulation for example).
Overall I favour Sublime’s approach as it creates great new workflow options that aren’t available in other editors. But I’d like to see selection modes like Line and Column added. There are situations where Sublime’s modeless alternatives get in the way especially with Column selection. Also with Line selection, eg. Selecting lines with Ctrl+L (Sublime’s faux-line selection) and hitting paste at an arbitrary horizontal position doesn’t insert whole lines resulting in things messing up.
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