A goodie in SciTE 1.73: mouse-pushing

[Bill Sconce]

For those of you who use SciTE...

A couple of weeks ago I saw in SciTE 1.73's release notes that one
of its new features is mouse-dragging to move a selection [1].
It sounded like a good idea...

I've been using 1.73 for a while now and mouse-dragging is...
   ...a REALLY good idea.  

It's probably because of the savings in brain cycles from the 
continuity of dragging vs. the jolts of cut/paste.  And from keeping
what you're doing fully visible, avoiding a transitional flicker
where the very text you're interested in goes invisible.  I was
just now doing some maintenance on a heavily-used Python program [2]
and noticed AGAIN how helpful this humble feature is.  

(And not just for Python - it's even more helpful when the code is
human-unreadable, like bash scripts.)

SciTE 1.73 isn't yet available in the respositories (not in Debian
or Ubuntu anyway), but all you have to do for an existing SciTE
installation is expand the downloaded tarball [3] somewhere and
e.g. make /usr/bin/scite into a symbolic link pointing to the
untarred executable.  All your properties files, etc. can stay
the same.

Sweet.


someday_we'll_be_as_good_as_emacs'ly yrs,

Bill

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[1] In earlier versions of SciTE mouse-dragging inserted a copy
    of the selection.  NOT what anyone wanted, however much they
    may have loved SciTE!

[2] SOME people's coding seems to depend largely on moving lines
    up and down.

[3] Download:
        http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/gscite173.tgz?download
    which is pointed to by a link under the heading "GTK+ / Linux" at:
        http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDownload.html