line_snap_delimiter

Description

The primary use-case would be snap selecting a line in a terminal multiplexer like tmux. Such selection would typically select across all panes, whereas the user most likely wanted to select only the line within a pane.

This patch adds following new variable into config.def.h:

snap_line_delimiters: this is the array of (multi-byte) characters which

                    will terminate a line snap selection. By default it
                    contains the `tmux` window pane separator `│`.

Notes

When snap selecting a line and dragging it, the selection can span multiple panes. It's probably possible to address this in follow-up patches.
The new delimiter variable does not affect word snap selection. If you want to ignore certain characters when double tapping a word for seleciton, add that character to worddelimiters in config.def.h. However, if a word snap selection does select the line snap delimiter, a subsequent line snap selection will de-select that character again anyway.

Download

st-line_snap_delimiter-3bd7e43.diff

Authors

Michael Buch - michaelbuch12@gmail.com