On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 07:07:16AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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".
I'd be curious whether you can do text multiselection there and whether (and how) it works cross-application. Cheers -- t
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