CopyAllowLine from 280Z28 / Sam Harwell that reproduces Visual Studio's

behaviour when performing copy on an empty selection copies the current
line.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/ScintillaDoc.html b/doc/ScintillaDoc.html
index 8361977cf..02553bda6 100644
--- a/doc/ScintillaDoc.html
+++ b/doc/ScintillaDoc.html
@@ -822,6 +822,7 @@ struct TextToFind {
      <a class="message" href="#SCI_COPYRANGE">SCI_COPYRANGE(int start, int end)</a><br />
      <a class="message" href="#SCI_COPYTEXT">SCI_COPYTEXT(int length,
      const char *text)</a><br />
+     <a class="message" href="#SCI_COPYALLOWLINE">SCI_COPYALLOWLINE</a><br />
      <a class="message" href="#SCI_SETPASTECONVERTENDINGS">SCI_SETPASTECONVERTENDINGS(bool convert)</a><br />
      <a class="message" href="#SCI_GETPASTECONVERTENDINGS">SCI_GETPASTECONVERTENDINGS</a><br />
     </code>
@@ -831,6 +832,7 @@ struct TextToFind {
      <b id="SCI_PASTE">SCI_PASTE</b><br />
      <b id="SCI_CLEAR">SCI_CLEAR</b><br />
      <b id="SCI_CANPASTE">SCI_CANPASTE</b><br />
+     <b id="SCI_COPYALLOWLINE">SCI_COPYALLOWLINE</b><br />
      These commands perform the standard tasks of cutting and copying data to the clipboard,
     pasting from the clipboard into the document, and clearing the document.
     <code>SCI_CANPASTE</code> returns non-zero if the document isn't read-only and if the selection
@@ -845,6 +847,11 @@ struct TextToFind {
     the destination and source applications. Data from SCI_PASTE will not arrive in the
     document immediately.</p>
 
+    <p><code>SCI_COPYALLOWLINE</code> works the same as SCI_COPY except that if the
+    selection is empty then the current line is copied. On Windows, an extra "MSDEVLineSelect" marker
+    is added to the clipboard which is then used in <code>SCI_PASTE</code> to paste
+    the whole line before the current line.</p>
+
      <b id="SCI_COPYRANGE">SCI_COPYRANGE(int start, int end)</b><br />
      <b id="SCI_COPYTEXT">SCI_COPYTEXT(int length, const char *text)</b><br />
     <p><code>SCI_COPYRANGE</code> copies a range of text from the document to