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bug #49396: keystrokes M-- and M-= with Shift held do not select text

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Thu 20 Oct 2016 06:47:56 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Mon 10 Apr 2017 06:56:44 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Holding Shift to mark/select text will work only together with the dedicated movement keys, not with the alphanumeric nor punctuation ones.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Thu 20 Oct 2016 06:47:56 PM UTC, original submission:  

To reproduce, run 'src/nano +18,29 NEWS' and then press <Shift+Alt+=> a few times.  One would expect the text from "vent" to the new cursor position to become highlighted and thus selected.

Of course this is somewhat problematic: the idea was to have the mnemonic key combos Alt++ and Alt+- scroll up and down, but for the first Shift needs to be held (on most keyboards), so to avoid having to do that, also M-= works as Scroll-Up.  And for symmetry also M-_ works as Scroll-Down.  But... since Shift+Arrow and Shift+Home/End and Shift+PgUp/PgDn select text, one might begin to expect that Shift plus any cursor movement selects text.  However, that will not work: Shift+Ctrl+Y and Shift+Ctrl+V will not select a whole screenful of text.  (On my terminal emulator, the latter key combo is caught and pastes whatever is on X's clipboard.)

So... not sure what is wise.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2017-05-05 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2017-04-10 bens Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        StatusNone Wont Fix

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