[Lazarus] How should "delete to end of word behave"

[Alexander Klenin]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 07:28, Martin Friebe <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
> IMHO there are 3 option how it could finally be. You can see in all 3
> examples that it will differ between space, identifer-chars, and punctation
>
>
> 1) spaces are *not* trimmed
>  f|oo_bar  :=  ord('b');  ->   f|  :=  ord('b');  ->  f|:=  ord('b');
> ->  f|  ord('b');  ->  f|ord('b');  ->  f|('b');  ->  f|b');  ->
> f|');  ->   f|
>
> 2) spaces are trimmed
>  f|oo_bar  :=  ord('b');  ->   f|:=  ord('b');  ->   f|ord('b');  ->
> f|('b');  ->  f|b');  ->   f|');  ->   f|
>
> 3) spaces are trimmed only if you where at the start of the word
>  (|cond1  AND  cond2)    ->   (|AND  cond2)
>  (co|nd1  AND  cond2)    ->   (co|  AND  cond2)
>
> The last one is what open-office does and MS word. It solves both: the
> quick deletition of many word and avoiding to join 2 (unrelated) words.
> Question is, if it could be irritating to have it conttext sensitive.

Assuming you speak about Ctrl+Delete shortcut in these applications:

OpenOffice 3.0 does delete _the next word_, even is there are spaces
in front of it (which makes sense since word processor users rarely
need to indent text).
I do not have MS Word to check.

OTOH, Visual Studio 2008 (and some other widows-specific
programmer-oriented editors,
like Far Commander and Notepad++) behave like Delphi, i.e. according
to case (2) above.

BTW, perhaps it would be good to add Ctrl+Delete as a default synonym to Ctrl+T?

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Alexander S. Klenin
Insight Experts Ltd.