[Stefan]

I want to suggest a few more selection features:

1.) Sticky Selection

Perhaps now with “Multiple Selection Editing”
it would be possible to add a new command “Sticky Selection”

It would work like pressing CTRL key while selecting next part.
Only without pressing that key.

Also there could be a macro command “Selection.Sticky = true;”

Multiple Selection Editing (new v13 feature)

The new version allows you to select multiple locations within a document. To make multiple selections, after making one selection, make another selection with the mouse while pressing the CTRL key.

2. Restore Selection

If a selection is made, EE should store the positions automatically.

Executing the feature “Restore Selection” would read
this positions and restore the last selection.

f.ex.:
– select line 3
– click elsewhere
– selection.Restore(); would restore the selection of line 3

3.) Invert Selection

If there was a selection made,
this feature would deselect the selection
and select the before not selected parts instead.

f.ex.:
– find and select lines with “word”
– Selection.Invert();

4.) selectLineNumber( n );

Command to select line number “n”

f.ex.:
selection.selectLineNumber( 14 );
selection.selectLineNumber( 33 );
selection.selectLineNumber( 45 );

5.) Get selected lines numbers

Command to report line numbers of seleted lines.

SelLinesArray = GetSelectedLinesIndieces();

Pseudo code to invert selection:

nLines = document.GetLines( [ nFlags ] );

SelLinesArray = document.GetSelectedLinesIndieces();

document.UnSelectAll = true;

Selection.Sticky = true;

for( L=0; L < nLines; L++){
  if( ! L in SelLinesArray )
     document.selection.selectLineNumber(L);
}

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