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It's difficult to select all of the text within a note #81

Open nealmadlani opened 9 years ago

nealmadlani commented 9 years ago
  1. Write some text
  2. Note some of the text
  3. Attempt to select all of the text within the note Actual: It's quite difficult to select the text within the note due to the on-hover states of the barriers. It would be useful if we thought of a way to select the text for the user. I've seen a few people have trouble with this when going to see how they work.
cutandpastey commented 9 years ago

This should be easy to achieve. cmd-a whilst in a note? @alastairjardine

alastairjardine commented 9 years ago

and/or triple clicking could select up to both edges of the note barrier

cutandpastey commented 9 years ago

I can do that.

nealmadlani commented 9 years ago

That would be extremely useful!

alastairjardine commented 9 years ago

I would be a little wary of cmd-a, simply because it means "select all" virtually everywhere, and we'd be breaking a standard behaviour in all of text editor land.

cutandpastey commented 9 years ago

It would be interesting to figure out what percentage of people use keyboard shortcuts as the main way of working against which people use the GUI. I kinda get the impression most users are using the keyboard.

Also, three clicks is select paragraph and i'd argue that this is more useful than selecting the whole text. In which case hijacking cmd-a is less intrusive than using 3 clicks.