My settings are word-wrap off and "constrain cursor to text" checked.
When I edit long lines I experience an annoying behaviour. I want to select text through autoscrolling to the end of a long line while holding the left mouse button.
When I now accidentally (but inevitable) move the cursor out of the line, up or down, everything will be deselected, the view jumps to the end of the lines above or below, and I have to start over again.
Could it be possible to jump back to the place where we left the long line and continue there as long as the mouse button has not been released?
The better solution would probably be not to move the horizontal window focus in such cases. At least that's how MS-Word handles this problem. OpenOffice behaves like TextPad
I experience the same problem, and as the solution agree 100% with cacycle.
-> when selecting don't move the horizontal scroll unless it is in response to the user request, just like all other screen movements. Up, down and right scrolling is only in response to the user, left scroll should also be the same.
