On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 11:38:25 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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: > > > > >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 LO writer. They drop the selection > when you only think of starting a new one
That's not what I experience with bullseye's lowriter. As is typical, doubleclicking in a word selects the word; dragging selects the dragged range. In addition, tripleclicking selects a whole sentence (however it defines that). Holding down control adds disjoint selections. (Here they're coloured light mauve.) Unlike copying from FF, lowriter pastes the selections into xterm in the order they were selected, not in the order they appeared in the source. It also preserves all the white space at the joins. AFAICT, Brad hasn't told us the applications in which disjoint selections are "ubiquitous" in his experience. Cheers, David.
