[Martin requested me to reply here instead of the bugtracker]

> Having the caret in the middle of the selection, after ctrl-a
> would hinder other users from quickly selecting all, but the last n lines
> (by deselecting a few lines after ctrl-a.)

This is not a very compelling argument, since current implementation
similarly prevents users from quickly selecting all but the _first_ lines.

>I do *not* think an option will be implemented to leave the caret in the 
>middle of the selection

Ok.

> I leave this open as a feature request for (optional?) deferred scrolling, on 
> select-all.

I think this would be even worse than current behavior -- not only the
caret position would be lost, but this fact would also be hidden from the user.

> I could also see a point of ctrl-a while all is selected, to deselect, and 
> restore the caret

While this would be a minor improvement, I think it is more important to fix
history restoration, since the user expects that Ctrl+H would return
him to the previous
position, but does not expect that Ctrl+A would do it.

If this is fixed, I would consider the issue resolved.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin

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