[Alphacocoa-devel] Problems with text selection

[Christopher S. <Chr...@un...>]

Hi,

Now that teaching has dropped off for a while, I have been trying to use Alpha exclusively for all my editing work.  I have encountered two issues that I think are both issues of text selection or, rather, lack of text selection.

First, dragging and dropping text is not working well at all.  In particular,  if I highlight some text and then try to drag it somewhere it is only rarely dragged anywhere at all.  It is much more common for the dragging of the mouse, while holding holding the button down, to change the highlighted region.

Second, rectangular editing displays similar behaviours.  I can select rectangular areas whilst holding down the option key.  A common reason to do so is to delete the selected region.  Hitting the delete key deletes only that part of the region that occupies the top-most line, the rest is left unchanged with the cursor on the topmost line at the end of the line segment that was deleted.

Is anybody else seeing these behaviours?

Cheers, Chris.