On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44 +0000, Brad Rogers wrote: > Use of <Ctrl> for discontinuous selection seems pretty much ubiquitous. > <Shift> is usually associated with continuous selection.
Only in Microsoft Windows, or in GUI applications that try to emulate Windows behavior. And even then, the selection you're making isn't generally text; it's files, or some other discrete objects, which you will subsequently drag or "paste" into another file manager window, which is understood to mean "copy these files to this other location".
