Thanks, that clears things up a lot, for me anyway.

I see that happen too.  But also, like I said before, the column selection
method also grabs the entire line(s).

This is all about the CodeMax Editor so probably not likely to be fixable by
Chris Cason or someone with the POV-Team.  But that's for them to say.
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"Felix Wiemann" <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
news:3c1b24a0@news.povray.org...

> Von: "bob h" <omn### [at] charternet>
> Newsgroups: povray.beta-test
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2001 00:26
> Betreff: Re: Windows: Copying text by Drag&Drop
>
> > But I think you are right, that it should
> > drag'n'drop only the area selected.
>
> No, no, it copies the selected area, but *after* copying the lines
> above the copied lines are marked.
> Write the following into the POV-Ray-editor (* lines are selected):
>
> 1
> 2 *
> 3 *
> 4 *
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 10
>
> Hold Ctrl and drag'n'drop the selected lines with the mouse to the
> begin of the 9th line. Now you see the following:
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6 *
> 7 *
> 8 *
> 2  <--- these lines
> 3  <--- are copied but
> 4  <--- not marked
> 9
> 10
>
> The lines 6 to 8 are marked, not the copied lines!
>
>

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