Velocity: Ctrl-W on string literal using double quotes too greedy : IDEA-44554

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Normal
Type	Usability Problem
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Can't Reproduce
Assignee	Peter Gromov
Subsystem	Template Languages. Velocity
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Taras Tielkes
3 years ago (27 Jun 2008 16:30)
Updated by Peter Gromov
4 months ago (06 Oct 2011 23:51)
Jira: IDEADEV-27948
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IDEA-44554 Velocity: Ctrl-W on string literal using double quotes too greedy

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Inside a string literal

First Ctrl-W includes all characters of literal (except surrounding quotes)
Second Ctrl-W includes much more

It would be convenient if there was a step in between, like:

First Ctrl-W includes all characters of literal (except surrounding quotes)
Second Ctrl-W includes all characters of literal (+including+ surrounding quotes)
Third Ctrl-W includes much more

This make selecting and cutting/copying string literals expressions much easier.
Also, it would be more consistent with HTML/JSP editor behavior.

It works as expected for literals using single quotes ('). Only the behavior with double quotes (") is unexpected.

Taras Tielkes

27 Jun 2008 16:39

3 years ago

An additional observation: for some reason, Ctrl-W seems to work in a much more reasonable way if the (double-quoted) string literal contains reference(s) to velocity variables.