Hi Sam,
Thanks for the feedback. > I'm not clear on why 2548 requires this change, but this was an > intentional design choice, made before any of us started on AbiWord. > There's some further discussion of this on bug 215. -- The convention is that Shift+ "movement key combination" does exactly the same as "movement key combination" except it creates/extends selection instead of just moving the caret. If PgUp/Down does not move the point, the Shift+PgDown cannot select. I had a look at 215 and there are couple problems in there. (1) Ctrl PgDown/Up does something quite different than PgDown/Up, it moves by whole page, not just a screen. (2) with the original behaviour it is impossible to move up/down by a screen at a time and then resume editing without using the mouse; this is a nuisance for someone who types fast and prefers not to use mouse. I think the suggestion that is made there that this should be user- configurable is probably best, and I will look into that. Tomas
