Move cursor to edge of selection when moving caret left/right

This is to mimic the behavior of many third party text editors. The
reason it's not doing it when moving by word is due to that behavior
being mostly the same on other editors.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scene/gui/text_edit.cpp b/scene/gui/text_edit.cpp
index 1b3935dd25..932846e73e 100644
--- a/scene/gui/text_edit.cpp
+++ b/scene/gui/text_edit.cpp
@@ -1584,6 +1584,12 @@ void TextEdit::_move_cursor_left(bool p_select, bool p_move_by_word) {
 	// Handle selection
 	if (p_select) {
 		_pre_shift_selection();
+	} else if (selection.active && !p_move_by_word) {
+		// If a selection is active, move cursor to start of selection
+		cursor_set_line(selection.from_line);
+		cursor_set_column(selection.from_column);
+		deselect();
+		return;
 	} else {
 		deselect();
 	}
@@ -1629,6 +1635,12 @@ void TextEdit::_move_cursor_right(bool p_select, bool p_move_by_word) {
 	// Handle selection
 	if (p_select) {
 		_pre_shift_selection();
+	} else if (selection.active && !p_move_by_word) {
+		// If a selection is active, move cursor to end of selection
+		cursor_set_line(selection.to_line);
+		cursor_set_column(selection.to_column);
+		deselect();
+		return;
 	} else {
 		deselect();
 	}