On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44AM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > Hello to...@tuxteam.de, > > >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or > >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying windows system (it's > > Use of <Ctrl> for discontinuous selection seems pretty much ubiquitous. > <Shift> is usually associated with continuous selection. > > I can think of no applications that I use that differs from those norms.
Try with xterm. Try with LO writer. They drop the selection when you only think of starting a new one (well: xterm shows you a menu when ctrl-left-mouse-ing, so no next selectio for you ;-) What you describe is a widespread behaviour of lists, but (a) you can select (or deselect) only whole list entries (b) you'll be surprised at the ideas the thing comes up with when pasting into another application (we've had some examples in this thread) I tried with a browser's text entry and some web "application", and there it kind of works (pasting things in Emacs or xterm crunches all snippets together, no separator). Cheers -- t
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