CTRL+Cursor word-wise jumping is tedious

[humdinger]

This is hrev33529.

CTRL+CursorLeft/Right will jump word-wise through a text. Unfortuntely, a space and other textmarkings are treated as word and you therefore jump e.g. from the end of a word to the beginning of the next word.

To illustrate, an example for CTRL+Right ("|" marks the cursor positions):

"Haiku| |is| |a| |new| |open|source| |operating| |system|"

This is, how it looks like in Pe or BeZilla:

"Haiku| is| a| new| open-|source| operating| system|"

Much more efficient, don't you agree?

So, request: When jumping word-wise, ignore non-letter chars, like space,.-!"? etc.

[axeld]

Yes, please!

[zooey]

Should be fixed in hrev33885.

[humdinger]

Much better now, thanks!

However, if you copy e.g. the sentence

"CTRL+CursorLeft/Right will jump word-wise through a text. Unfortuntely, a space and other textmarkings are treated as word and you therefore jump e.g. from the end of a word to the beginning of the next word."

into Mail, StyledEdit and Pe, you'll still see different behaviour. Maybe this should be consistent.

[anevilyak]

In Pe's case at least this isn't completely surprising ; it uses a completely custom textview that isn't based on the code of the OS one at all, not sure about Mail though.

[humdinger]

Yep. However it still should be consistent between all apps. Pe's doing it right IMO, so that could be the template for the whole system. Or adapt Pe if that doesn't agree.