Ctrl-D duplicating too much text

[philiprbrenan]

If I select line 1 and just 1 character of line 2 and press Ctrl-D I get more text from line 2 duplicated than expected. In other contexts, Ctrl-D duplicates just the hilighted text. Please consider making the behavior more consistent as consistency is one of the reasons that Geany is so useful and easy to learn. Thanks!

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[b4n]

It's actually a feature that Ctrl+D duplicates whole lines when more than one is selected. Your first before/after duplicating exactly one line is also expected, because you actually only selected 1 whole line, nothing on the next. You selected ABC\n (e.g. the line contents and the line ending character), so only 1 line, hence it duplicates that line only. In your first example it duplicated the 2 lines because you selected more than one line.

If there is a bug here, it is that when a line doesn't end with a newline (like in your first unexpected example) it doesn't add such a new line and simply duplicates the range (missing the newline), leading to the lines combining as in your example. This does not happen if there's a newline character at the end of the line.

[elextr]

My comment seems to have been "misplaced", it said:

The keystroke is used to do two things, duplicate selection and duplicate lines, so it has to choose which one to do.

The choice is to duplicate lines anytime the selection includes a line end, or there is no selection, otherwise to duplicate the selection.

The documentation could be improved to spell this out.