0007439: Selection in Trunk text editors does not extend correctly

> Hi,
>
> From: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7439
>> Extending the selection in a Workspace with shift-click does not seem to work properly
> The clause handling exactly this was removed from TextEditor>>  mouesDown:
>
> evt shiftPressed
> ifFalse: [
> self closeTypeIn.
> self markBlock: b.
> self pointBlock: b ]
>>>>> ifTrue: [
> self closeTypeIn.
> self mouseMove: evt ].
> self storeSelectionInParagraph<<<<  This was removed.
>
> If you put it back, shift-click selection works again, but maybe there
> was a motivation to remove it.
> Anybody knows about this?

> On 2/26/2010 2:27 PM, Balázs Kósi wrote:
>>> I'm not sure what's wrong with shift-click selection to begin with.
>>> It seems
>>> tp work perfectly fine for me. Perhaps a platform issue? I'm on
>>> Windows.
>> It happens under both mac and windows for me:
>>
>> Open a Workspace. Type aaa bbb. Position the cursor in aaa.
>> Hold down shift, click on bbb. aaa gets selected, instead of
>> selecting from the cursor to the character you clicked.
>
> Got it, thanks. (I had accidentally used an old workspace that still
> had a TextMorphEditor installed)
>
> Only Juan could say for sure if there was some intention behind
> changing this but this is clearly broken so my take on it would be to
> fix it first and ask questions later :-) It's easily undone if it
> turns out not to be the preferred choice of fixing it but I can see
> how that might be annoying.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas