Line selection in Eclipse

[Bill Tschumy]

How are you supposed to do line selection in Eclipse? In most editors you
can triple click to select a line and triple click and drag to select
multiple lines. I can't see any way to do this in Eclipse.

This seems fundamental to efficient editing and I can't believe it's not
there somewhere. What's the secret handshake?

 

[Kari Ikonen]

How are you supposed to do line selection in Eclipse? In most editors you
can triple click to select a line and triple click and drag to select
multiple lines. I can't see any way to do this in Eclipse.

This seems fundamental to efficient editing and I can't believe it's not
there somewhere. What's the secret handshake?

There is thing called "keyboard"... Never heard of that?

 

[Bill Tschumy]

There is thing called "keyboard"... Never heard of that?

Yes, I do believe I've heard of that. Are you implying there is a keyboard
shortcut or do I have to do line selection via Home then down arrow? If the
latter, then it is hardly a substitute for triple click.

 

[Oscar kind]

How are you supposed to do line selection in Eclipse? In most editors you
can triple click to select a line and triple click and drag to select
multiple lines. I can't see any way to do this in Eclipse.

This seems fundamental to efficient editing and I can't believe it's not
there somewhere. What's the secret handshake?

I disagree with that. To me, efficient editing is done by throwing out the
mouse, and using the keyboard. Especially as I mostly tend to write code.
And when I do need to move code around, I use the refactoring support of
my IDE (it is one of the several IDE's with good refactoring support).

 

[Lisa]

How are you supposed to do line selection in Eclipse? In most editors you
can triple click to select a line and triple click and drag to select
multiple lines. I can't see any way to do this in Eclipse.

This seems fundamental to efficient editing and I can't believe it's not
there somewhere. What's the secret handshake?

I just tried this. You left click on the line number.

 

[Kari Ikonen]

shortcut or do I have to do line selection via Home then down arrow? If
the latter, then it is hardly a substitute for triple click.

Yes, I agree that it is not substitute for triple click, since it is both
better and faster than mousing around.

IMHO, requiring more than doubleclick from the users, is usability problem,
not improvement. Even doubleclick is difficult for lot of users.

 

[Bill Tschumy]

I just tried this. You left click on the line number.

Lisa,

Thanks for answering my question rather than trying to tell me what I want is
wrong. I'm not going to get drawn into a mouse vs. keyboard argument.

Your suggestion works, but unfortunately I don't normally have line numbers
displayed. I guess I'll just have to make do with what I've got.