Hallo Joern,

Thank you very much for catching this one.
Do you think this would be a good candidate for putting on 
SqueakMap? Do you find the code helpful? Does it break anything else?

Many thanks,
Torge
Am 17.11.2002 17:49:19 schrieb Joern Eyrich <Joern.Eyrich at syngenio.de>:

>Torge Husfeldt has posted code for this. you can find it here:
>http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/2657.html
>
>I had difficulties with filing this in (Syntax error, "Argument expected" after the second doIt, both on 2.3-4596 and 3.4a-5109), but could do it after moving the doIts from the 
preamble to the postscript (they only add preferences, I think this should be safe)
>
>so if you have trouble with the original, too, try the attached version.
>
>HTH,
>Joern
>
>Markus Fritsche wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Is there a preference value that controls how marking text (shift+arrow)
>> works? I would like to have the "kde" behaviour that remembers where the
>> marking started and marks text relativly to that position (meaning:
>> Shift+ ( -> -> <- <- <-) results in on char marked to the left of
>> position where the action started and not in three signs to the left and
>> two to the right, als in 'native' squeak).
>> 
>> Regards, Markus