Text Selection with mouse

[banjo]

When I attempt to select multiple lines of text with the mouse, I have to make sure the mouse is not too far the the left. If the mouse pointer is over the line numbers or over the 1 character special strip on the left, then no text is selected. I am accustomed to placing the mouse pointer on the extreme left of the window, depressing the left mouse button and dragging the pointer diagonally downward to select the block of text I want. This works in Zeus as long as the cursor is exactly on the first real text character location. If I am over the special strip or the line numbers, then it does not work.
Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have some option incorrectly configured?

Thanks.

---- Steve

[jussij]

I am accustomed to placing the mouse pointer on the extreme left of the window, depressing the left mouse button and dragging the pointer diagonally downward to select the block of text I want.

Zeus can only emulate this effect in line marking mode.

For example if you place the cursor anywhere on the first line (ie column 1, 2, 3, 4, ... n), press and hold down the Alt key, then drag diagonally downwards to select the last line of the block. The effect should be that Zeus will have marked these range of lines in line marking mode

But for the column and block modes there is no choice but to correctly select the starting point for the marking

If I am over the special strip or the line numbers, then it does not work. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have some option incorrectly configured?

Neither. As you have found out, clicking on the numbers strip does nothing

Cheers Jussi.

[Guest]

Ok, knowing about this feature, a helpful tip for others is to change the background colors for the line numbers and the line folding. By changing these to a contrasting color, you know where the dead-zone is. This is most useful when attempting to code a block of indented code. Because of the indention, it is often not obvious where column 1 is.