Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Problems with text selection

[Greg D. <gre...@in...>]

I see this as well.  When selecting a block of text and then attempting to drag it, the cursor doesn't change from the selection I-bar (perhaps this
is related?) and sometimes "grabbing" the block of selected text will move it (while also changing the cursor to the arrow as you start to move it)
and other times it will just select from the point where you click.  Oddly, it will succeed several times in a row, only to fail after seemingly
repeating the exact same action a moment later.

It seems that when you have just successfully dragged a block of text, attempting to drag that selected text again is more likely to fail, though
again I haven't been able to isolate the exact steps which cause this.  I've tried moving the cursor outside the active window (forcing the cursor to
change to a different shape) and then moving it back; I've also tried waiting a second or two before attempting to click and drag, and clicking in
various places within the highlighted selection (including where there is no text) before attempting to drag.  None of these seem to correlate with
the issue.  It's elusive.

The issue with deleting a rectangular selection seems to show up every time - oddly, I hadn't tested this until now.

On 7/28/17 12:46 AM, Christopher Skeels wrote:
> 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.


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