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MacOS: rectangular selection not possible with just keys #25

Closed journeyresearch closed 3 years ago

journeyresearch commented 3 years ago

On Linux, it is possible to use only keys to make a rectangular selection, but on a Mac, this appears to be broken. Using Ctrl-Shift with the mouse works, but I'd rather use keys.

Geany 1.37 Using GTK+ v3.24.20 and GLib v2.66.0 runtime libraries

System Version: macOS 10.15.7 (19H15) Kernel Version: Darwin 19.6.0

Perhaps I need to change a keybinding? (attached) keybindings.conf.gz

simonhf commented 3 years ago

Following this issue in case it gets fixed :-)

I experience the same issue with the latest version 1.37-3. Same issue with the previous version 1.36-2. And tried versions 1.33 through 1.35 but for me they didn't start on macOS Big Sur.

Discovered an temporary workaround in addition to the mouse workaround already suggested above. The additional workaround is to install this plugin [1] which then allows 'Column Mode' to be switched on, which then allows columns to be selection without the mouse using only shift arrow up or shift arrow down.

[1] https://plugins.geany.org/geanyextrasel.html

techee commented 3 years ago

Doesn't Option+Shift plus arrows work? It at least works on my machine.

techee commented 3 years ago

I'm closing this as I think rectangular selection using keys is possible - Option+Shift+arrows works for me. Feel free to reopen this issue if it isn't the case for you.

The real issue though is the one reported in

https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2685