On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 9:21 PM Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > There appears to be some slight change in behavior of Tab, Shift-Tab and > Ctrl-{up-arrow} and Ctrl-{down-arrow} from previous versions, with > respected to highlighted text and the location of the cursor. > > *Regarding Tab and Shift-Tab:* > With the cursor at the beginning of a line, use Shift-{down-arrow} to > highlight the line, then use Tab to tab the line to the right. The result > is the single highlighted line tabbing right, and the cursor moving to the > end of the line. Now Shift-Tab, and the line moves back left, but the > cursor remains at the end of the line. The cursor re-position seems > inconsistent - but that's not the main issue... This does seem different > from previous versions of Leo though - because the line following the > highlighted lines would also get tabbed. > > *Now adding Ctrl-{up/down-arrow}:* > With the cursor at the beginning of a line, use Shift-{down-arrow} to > highlight the line. Then use Ctrl-{up-or-down-arrow}. The highlighted line > moves up/down respectively, *but so does the line below the highlighted > line! *This also holds true for Shift-{up-arrow} to highlight the line > above the current cursor position. > > None of this is terrible. It seems somewhat inconsistent and illogical > though. It used to be that Tab and Ctrl-{up-or-down-arrow} would also > affect the following un-highlighted line - which I thought odd, but I got > used to it. I'm not advocating a return to the old behavior necessarily, > but I think it would make sense that these two actions would behave > similarly with selected text. >
Thanks for this report. This new behavior is likely the result of #1731 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1731>, with PR #1732 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/pull/1732>. Iirc, the changes were tricky and subtly affected key bindings. Feel free to file an issue, but only if you really care :-) Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS1TqhrrEXgL%3D5mRP%2BDxK1TBD5mR7GeHjki2COLCUWtTQA%40mail.gmail.com.
