Triple clicks

Text editors and line edits support the so-called triple clicks according to [1]. The document says

• Triple Click: Select the targeted row. [...]

It is unclear whether the "targeted row" includes the trailing linebreak. Kate Part selects the targeted line including the linebreak. You get the following behavior:

• If you move the selected row with the mouse, you usually have the linebreaks right. The same applies for copy/cut & paste. If you are used to it, it really is a nice feature.
  

While this behavior is pretty straightforward, it is not widely in use. If you look at text edit widgets like in firefox, konqueror, Qt, KWord or OOo you will notice that they do not include the trailing newline character.

Question now is: Should we change it for KDE 4 in Kate Part just to be compliant with the others? As Kate Part is an editor component mainly used for programming, my favourite option is to include it, i.e. to keep the current behavior.

(update) I just stumbled over http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91041 =)

[1] http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/mouse/selection.html

Kate Part in upcoming KDE 3.5.4

The last week was highly productive for Kate Part, as the following bugs were fixed:

• 89042 while pressing "del" key kate crashes (crash, bt)
• 103648 Codefolding Crash - Reproducable
• 118584 scroll position not upgrading (dynamic word wrap)
• 119435 kate crash when a file is saved
• 123315 kwrite/kate crashes randomly after save
• 124102 changing syntax highlighting when code is folded crashes katepart
• 127928 kate crashes deleting a block of text
• 128690 Dynamic word wrap makes text input slow
  
• 129853 Horizontal scrollbar and view not synced, if dynamic and static word wrap are off
• and some minor issues
  

That are 6 crash fixes. Kate Part in KDE 3.5.4 will be more stable than ever :) That's especially cool for KDevelop, Quanta+, Kile - well and Kate.
Special thanks to Andreas Kling for initiating the bug squashing sessions! You are like a blackbox: The input is a bug and your output is the fix ;)

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