Select a line with triple click

[matteo.gazzoni]

A line cannot be selected triple clicking it, why?

[EJ12N]

A line cannot be selected triple clicking it, why?

Why should it be???

as far as I know people that want to highlight a line in MOST windows editors either use the shortcut... sublime is ctrl+L, click on the "gutter" (numbers line), or do shift+end/home, or last use the mouse..., double click by standard in MOST windows editors select the current word under the cursor... try it in notepad... triple click... nothing?

Now, I am not picking up on u or your idea, I think is good to have choices but the "why not!?" attitude is not good :/

Bad news is that I don't think you can even do a plugin for it at least not with sublime api, you can try autohotkey, I think it could be possible with a PostMessage to send the command to highlight the line with triple click...

[tgkeul]

but the "why not!?" attitude is not good

I don't see a bad attitude. It's just a question!
Maybe it's a culture clash?

[vim]

actually it is a common behavior of most windows/gui application, so i guess users have tendency to try and use it.

[EJ12N]

but the "why not!?" attitude is not good

I don't see a bad attitude. It's just a question!
Maybe it's a culture clash?

maybe ? lol

[matteo.gazzoni]

Because most of the programs that deal with text (Notepad does not deserve to be called program) have that shortcut.

Edit: and by the way, anyone knows why st selects, in addition to the line chosen, the beginning of the line after?

[EJ12N]

Because most of the programs that deal with text (Notepad does not deserve to be called program) have that shortcut.
Edit: and by the way, anyone knows why st selects, in addition to the line chosen, the beginning of the line after?

Because it selects the line ending character (\n)

If you guys want this functionality I'm sure autohotkey can make it possible...

[EJ12N]

Here's the autohotkey code if you want to select the line with a triple click...
This just sends ctrl+L to sublimetext
Tested and works... won't affect triple click in any other app... if you select multiple lines ctrl+click and then on the last line u triple click it'll select all lines

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#IfWinActive, ahk_class SKMainWindowClass
~*LButton::
{
  if clickCount > 0
  {
      clickCount += 1
      return
  }
  clickCount = 1
  SetTimer, clickHandler, 400
  return

  clickHandler:
  SetTimer, clickHandler, off
  if clickCount = 3
  {
      ;Triple click detected, send Ctrl+L shortcut to select the line...
      SendEvent, ^l
  }
  clickCount = 0
  return
}
#IfWinActive

[kveldulv]

+1 on wanting triple-click = select whole line.
This is common behavior in every other editor I've used, I think it's quite intuitive, as I'm sure I found it through button-bashing, not documentation.

1 click = cursor position
2 click = select word
3 click = select entire line

It's easy enough to do a single-click again if you want to de-select something. (ie mimic current behaviour)

As for CTRL+L, my vote/suggestion would be to make currently selected line lower-case. I've seen that elsewhere and it makes sense.

[gpfsmurf]

As for CTRL+L, my vote/suggestion would be to make currently selected line lower-case. I've seen that elsewhere and it makes sense.

Personnally I like the current behavior (CTRL+L = selectLine)

You can add something like this to User\Default.sublime-keymap to override the default behavior:

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<binding key="ctrl+l" command="lowerCase"/>