Some text editors have special modes or options to visualize spaces at the ends of lines. This isn't often needed but sometimes it is necessary. And then, selecting text by clicking on a space between words is a pretty intuitive thing to do as well.
We have the visual and geometric bboxes, so why not make use of this here? Geometric bbox would only include glyph outlines - but the visual one, which already includes things like shadow filters (which can be almost transparent), would also include spaces. I think it would be logical enough and accommodate different needs without introducing a new option.
I also disagree that an all-space text object must be deleted automatically. There may be all kinds of reasons to have such objects in a document. The only automatic deletion which has always been in Text tool, and which is quite enough, is if you just clicked on canvas to start a new text and then immediately pressed Esc or switched tool without typing anything.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...972.....> wrote:
2014-04-14 20:28 GMT+02:00 mathog <mathog@...1176...>:
On 14-Apr-2014 10:58, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2014-04-14 19:12 GMT+02:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
Can you design a test which could be given to users, which could falsify your claims of confusion?
Select all red circles in this document.
You mean by dragging a box around them, or one at a time?
In the former case it also picks up the top text, telling the user that the lower text must extend invisibly outwards.
In the latter case it only picks up the circles, which is not confusing at all.
I meant selecting them one at a time with Shift. I had the impression that the proposed behavior is to select the bottom text when clicking on the circles (because its leading/trailing space is overlapping the circles), not the current behavior.
Regards, Krzysztof
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