Bug 340778

Summary: Allow using Alt + Shift + arrows for block selection in Kate
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Shmerl <shtetldik>
Component: generalAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: loh.tar, waqar.17a
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Shmerl 2014-11-09 02:46:46 UTC
Kate offers vertical block selection as a toggleable state. I.e. one has to press a shortcut to enable it. Some editors (for instance Geany) offer more comfortable way of selecting a block which is close to the non block selection. That is using Alt + Shift + arrow.

It's quite easy and doesn't require any pressing of the toggle combination. It's also easy to switch in and out of that mode by simply releasing or pressing again the Alt button,

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Lothar 2019-02-19 20:39:18 UTC
I like the idea. Unfortunately is Alt-Shift-FooArrow already used 
by "Move to indent" and the build plugin for "Go to Error"
Comment 2 Waqar Ahmed 2022-10-03 08:31:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 437636 ***