On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 11:09:52AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I have a command-sequence that uses word-select prior to using cut. Recently > I was surprised to find the content of the *previous* item saved to the > clipboard being pasted rather than the expected one. After experimenting, I > think an unintuitive cursor positioning is the cause. > Suppose your word is abcdefghijk. If the cursor is positioned after the k > and you invoke word-select the whole word abcdefghijk is selected. Howeve if > you start selecting character by character from the right (Shift + left > arrow) and then after a few characters invoke word-select the selection is > cancelled, leaving the cursor where it started after the k (meaning the cut > operation of my command sequence had nothing to save to the clipboard). > In the other direction, with cursor positioned before the a and then > (Shift+right arrow) a few characters selected, invoking word-select expands > the selection to the whole word. To my mind this is the behaviour I would > expect also in the backward direction (as is the case in LibfreOffice). > This is in 2.4.0 alpha3 on windows 10. > Andrew
Testing the latest master commit, I confirm the behavior you describe and I agree it should be improved. Scott
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