Well, technically, the selection is just a textmark. All textmarks do is record a position. I guess you could do the same by activating a function via a gesture that tracks the mouse and simulates this using texttags (formatting), but by default I don't think there is a way to do that.
Smartboy On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Giuseppe Penone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering if in pygtk there's a way to obtain the so called column > selection or block selection or rectangular selection. > If anybody uses geany, keeping pressed ctrl+alt while performing the > selection will give the idea of the result. > Geany is gtk2 but unfortunately uses scintilla to obtain this result (as > well as syntax highlighting), not gtk textbuffer or sourcebuffer. > Cheers, > Giuseppe. > > > _______________________________________________ > pygtk mailing list [email protected] > http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk > Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ >
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