Anyone else find "Zoom Selection" fails on a vertical zero-width line?

1 Draw a vertical straight line
2 Set width to zero:

3 Click View, Zoom, Selection

Expected: Zoom so selection fits window
Observer: no effect.

This on Inkscape V0.48, Win 7 Pro 64-bit.

In my book the current behaviour is fine. Otherwise how's inkscape support to calculate the width of screen in proportion to selection when selection is zero width? What else should it do?

chriswww wrote:how's inkscape support to calculate the width of screen in proportion to selection when selection is zero width?

Inkscape doesn't need to. Since any screen width is sufficient to accommodate zero selection width.

chriswww wrote: What else should it do?

Fit height. Width zero is no good reason to ignore height.

chrisjj wrote:

chriswww wrote:how's inkscape support to calculate the width of screen in proportion to selection when selection is zero width?

Inkscape doesn't need to. Since any screen width is sufficient to accommodate zero selection width.

chriswww wrote: What else should it do?

Fit height. Width zero is no good reason to ignore height.

You make a cogent argument! The best way to take care of this glitch, since it probably affects the very tiniest fraction of users - maybe only one - is to just jump on there and write an exception into the code to switch to height for scaling when objects have zero width.

I don't know why View menu > Zoom > Selection fails, because the Q key does work as expected! (0.48.4, win7, 64-bit) I guess I could surmise that those 2 ways of zooming work in different ways. But the technical side of Inkscape is mostly a mystery to me.

Q key --

• with mouse pointer over canvas, press and hold zooms selection to fit canvas -- release key to unzoom
• with mouse pointer NOT over canvas, 1 tap zooms selection to fit canvas, and holds it zoomed -- to unzoom, move pointer back over canvas and tap key again
• there may be another couple of tricks with the Q key, but I can't remember them all at the moment

Notwithstanding more elaborate logic, my point was more philosophical than anything else. There are times when certain operations don't make too much sense or otherwise would need to take care of all special cases to accomplish. In this case, you'd also need to scale differently when height is zero. What should inkscape do when the object is zero width and height? Surely these kinds of objects must have limited use and using the zoom in key or menu should suffice?