Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] selecting text by holding Shift

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015, at 21:44, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Here's a first attempt.  It works for the four arrow keys, but not
> for Home, End, PgUp and PgDn -- those keys when held together with
> Shift don't produce any code on my terminal emulator.

Those Shift+Home etcera are caught by the terminal emulator,
to scroll through its history.  Those keys have no purpose when
nano is running, but I don't know how to tell the emulator to
let go of them.

> And also holding Shift together with Control doesn't work.

In the attached second attempt, Shift+Control+Left and
Shift+Control+Right work now.  Tested on a Gnome Terminal
and an Xfce4 Terminal.

It's a pity that Shift+Home and Shift+End don't work; if they
could be made to work, then selection by holding shift in this
form would be already quite usable, in my opinion.

Benno

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