Closed Bug 25462 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Control shift left arrow doesn't select word

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: nathan, Assigned: mjudge)

References

Details

Control shift left cursor should select and highlight the entire word, all it
does it move the cursor the correct amount without selecting.
*** Bug 25520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This only applies in edit fields, i.e., where a caret can show.

Confirmed in M13 and in 2000-01-28-12-M14

Bug 25730, "shift-arrowkey selection extension not working in edit fields"
may get in the way of fixing this. Note that 25730 bug did not occur with M13,
unlike this bug.
Component: Browser-General → Selection
QA Contact: nobody → elig
*** Bug 25777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Assigning all open "nobody@mozilla.org" bugs to "leger@netscape.com" to weed 
thru.
Assignee: nobody → leger
reassign to mjudge; cc myself

Does anyone know if this is Windows-specific or cross-platform?
Assignee: leger → mjudge
This really seems like a duplicate of 25730 (or vice versa).  Can someone explain 
how they are different?  What happened in M13 to cause this bug to be different 
from 25730? (Are we sure that 25730 didn't happen in M13?)
Summary: Control shift left cursor doesn't select word → Control shift left arrow doesn't select word
It wouldn't suprise me if the fix for bug 25730 takes care of this bug along 
the way, but no, I checked carefully and it did not happen in M13 on WinNT.
The real difference is that in bug 25730, one character is selected at any
given time, using shift-left* or shift-right* in the way that would normally
extend the selection, whereas here, using ctrl-shift-arrowkey, no selection
happens at all. My best guess is that one of the first M14 changes built on 
this bug's fragile base to create bug 25730.

setting to M14
Target Milestone: M14
Quoting from bug 25730:
  >----- Additional Comments From jdaly@ixl.com  2000-02-07 15:15 -----
  >same effect for [shift]+[home] and [shift]+[end], which is [no selection].
Confirmed with 2000-02-07-08-M14 nightly binary on Windows NT.
fixed. just a simple .xml file change
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Verified fixed using 2.15.09 commercial builds on Win32/Mac OS & 2.14.09 
commercial Linux build.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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