Pick a starting point instead of element selection?

[ds300]

Pick a starting point instead of element selection?

[ecsplendid]

I thought we solved this problem? - see #38

[peteruithoven]

Good point, I didn't try it yet. I should try before coming up with backup solutions ;)
I'll try tomorrow.
If we think we don't need the backup we can close this for now, we can always reopen it.

[ds300]

The article selection does not solve this problem in that it doesn't let you choose a start point. It just makes a best guess and you have to live with it.

On the other hand, selecting text before pressing alt-s can be clumsy, and the current mouseover selection mode can pick up a lot of cruft and doesn't let you e.g. start halfway through the <p>s in a <div>.

To fix this, I've made the default mouseover mode select the siblings of the pointed-to node. In addition, it tries to filter out non-text stuff which seems to work pretty well. Finally, you can hold alt to get the old behaviour back.

This is all in dev. Try it out.

[ecsplendid]

@ds300 this is inspired mate well done! I will be stealing it :>

[ecsplendid]

The article scraper we are running is pretty flaky to be honest, I think we should scrap that and use this new method. It seems to work nicely. Then we have just alt-s to worry about

[peteruithoven]

@ds300, I like it! Your solution has the same outcome, but with more feedback.
I'm considering this closed.