charles reid wrote: > I am using LyX 1.6.0 on OS X 10.5 and I can confirm the behavior of the > Shift-key problem. If I use the Shift key plus the left and right arrows, > no text is selected, and the arrows simply move left and right as though > Shift were not being held down (same behavior for both left and right > Shift keys). However, using the Shift key with the up and down arrows > works fine. This issue is not present in 1.5.6 or 1.5.7.
Do you have some configuration files (especially *.ui and *.bind files) from a previous version installed in your user directory? If so, try if removing them helps. Jürgen