How to select a line without selecting the line break at the end of it in Sublime Text? - sublimetext

Question

When I click on the line number at the left or if I triple click the text in the line, I don't want the following new line/line break to be selected. Is there any simple way to change the settings for this? It would save a lot of time when copying/pasting.

Answer 1

This won't help with clicking on the line number, but here's how you can change the triple-click. In Default (Windows).sublime-mousemap, the triple-click is defined like this:
// Drag select by lines
{
"button": "button1", "count": 3,
"press_command": "drag_select",
"press_args": {"by": "lines"},
},
You can override that definition by creating a corresponding Default (Windows).sublime-mousemap file in your User package, and then redefine it like this:
[
// Drag select by lines
{
"button": "button1", "count": 3,
"press_command": "drag_select",
"press_args": {"by": "lines"},
"command": "move",
"args": {"by": "characters", "extend": true, "forward": false}
},
]
Note: The press_command/press_args lines are what happens on the button's way down (the third time in this case). Adding the command/args lines tells it what to do when the button comes back up.
Likewise, you can define an alternative to the Expand Selection to Line command keybinding (ctrl+L) in your User\Default (Windows).sublime-keymap:
{ "keys": ["alt+l"], "command": "chain", "args": {
"commands": [
["expand_selection", {"to": "line"}],
["move", {"by": "characters", "extend": true, "forward": false}],
]
}
}
In this case, you can't have two command/arg lines directly in the same binding, so we go through the "chain" command.