[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #131 Keyboard text selection

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

I think this is the standard behavior recommended by Apple. I observe the same behavior in TextEdit. If your cursor is in the middle of a line and you press shift-cmd-left, the left part of the line is selected. Then you press shift-cmd-right and the right part of the line is additionally selected, so that the entire line is now selected. I see that TextWrangler on the contrary toggles the left and the right parts of the line when you press successively shift-cmd-left and shift-cmd-right. The current behavior is the one implemented by the Cocoa text engine: I tried to remove Alpha's definitions and still I get the same behavior (which means that we do not even have to bother about these key bindings in AlphaTcl because we have them for free).


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** [tickets:#131] Keyboard text selection**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:09 AM UTC by Sylvain Loiseau
**Last Updated:** Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:09 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Using shift-alt-left/right key, I can select text word by word. The behavior is the newly implemented one: if I select text toward the left, and then use the right key, it narrows the selection (instead of extending it toward the right).

Using the shift-cmd-left/right key, I can select text up to the end of the line. However, the behavior is the old one: if I select toward the left and then toward the right (releasing the cmd key or not) the selection extends toward the right.


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