Bug 380744

Summary: FIXED IN SVN: Can't type in the console if text is selected
Product: [Applications] rkward Reporter: RKWard Team <rkward-devel>
Component: generalAssignee: RKWard Team <rkward-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
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Description RKWard Team 2011-12-07 15:58:48 UTC 
-- Originally posted by (AT sourceforge.net): nalimilan --

-- This ticket was imported from http://sourceforge.net/p/rkward/bugs/113 on 2017-05-30 15:26:48 +0100 --
If you select some text in the R console, you can't type any text in it. This is very annoying, because I often end up selecting one or two characters inadvertently when I click on the console to focus it: when the mouse is moving, it's very hard to avoid selecting something.

It took me months to understand why, seemingly at random, I couldn't type anything. I can imagine this may bite people at times, which gives a very bad impression.

As I don't see the reason why typing should be disabled when text is selected, I suggest changing this behavior \(unless that's a technical limitation\).
Comment 1 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2011-12-07 17:26:18 UTC 
Hi\!

The technical issue behind this is this: If a selection is active, any key press would usually affect that selection \(e.g. replacing it\). Since everything outside the last line should be read-only, the policy was to ignore key-presses \(with a beep\), if there is a selection, outside the last line.

I have now changed this to clear the selection \(not the selection contents, of course\), then handle the key. I guess that really is better is almost all use cases.

Regards
Thomas
Comment 2 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2011-12-07 17:26:18 UTC 
- **assigned_to**: nobody --> tfry
- **summary**: Can't type in the console if text is selected --> FIXED IN SVN: Can't type in the console if text is selected
- **status**: open --> open-fixed
Comment 3 RKWard Team 2011-12-07 17:54:49 UTC 
-- Originally posted by (AT sourceforge.net): nalimilan --
Cool\! ;-\)
Comment 4 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2012-11-21 12:08:43 UTC 
- **status**: open-fixed --> closed-fixed