Virtual space / moving caret outside the end of line

[Debvgger]

Hi, I would like to know if there's a way to move the caret to positions with no text on it.

Scintilla has had this option for quite some time now and it's possible to enable it making a call into it (there's, for example, a small trick to enable it in Notepad++). If I'm right, wxStyledTextCtrl contains Scintilla on it's guts, so if it's not already done, it may be possible to do it, and it should probably be a very small patch of a few lines, maybe three or four, mayben even just one. If necessary, I would be willing to try to do it by myself, but I'm having problems compiling Codelite on Windows.

Any feedback on this would be welcomed, as even if I can live without it, this is a feature I miss A LOT if it's not present

[eranif]

I have updated our build page for Windows on the wiki:
http://codelite.org/Developers/Windows

This should help you get started building codelite properly under Windows with MinGW

Eran

[eranif]

This is now implemented in git head

Eran

[Debvgger]

That's amazing, thank you very much I have now been able to compile the 5.4 code successfully, although I don't know how to activate the new mode.

[eranif]

pull the latest git head.
And enable this option from settings -> global editor preferences -> caret & scrolling (see below the screenshot)

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Eran

[Debvgger]

Thanks, I will check as soon as possible, probably tomorrow morning. Right now I'm rushing to finish university work

[Debvgger]

It works! Wow, such more usable for me now, thanks a lot!

What I'm not getting is the updated settings screen (not that I want to disable it, BTW). It was already in this mode when I started Codelite. Maybe I'm not pulling the latest of the latest? I did "git checkout head . " then compiled and updated. Maybe I'm not using the right git command?

[eranif]

Try simply running:

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git pull

Eran

[Debvgger]

Ok, found the problem! I had already done a pull, but after some inspection I noticed that git was informing me that I was not in any branch. I switched to the master branch and repeated. Now I have both the functionality plus the settings screen just as it was meant to be.

I think I was maybe using a partial update before, and the "zombie" Codelite was misusing the settings or something because of that, enabling the functionality before I set it in the settings. In this new build I had to enable it from there to get it.

So all is good now, you have my gratitude Eran!