Bug 451925

Summary: block selection doesn't work with RTL text
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Fahad Al-Saidi <Fahad.alsaidi>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: waqar.17a
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Fahad Al-Saidi 2022-03-26 12:08:55 UTC 
SUMMARY
block selection mode doesn't work with RTL text.  I couldn't select any text.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. add multiple RTL lines
2. turn on block selection mode 
3. try to select anything

OBSERVED RESULT
no selection at all
Comment 1 Fahad Al-Saidi 2022-03-26 12:14:33 UTC 
@Waqar Ahmed please have a look
Comment 2 Waqar Ahmed 2022-03-26 14:16:57 UTC 
Block selection is fairly complex and will probably not be that easy to make it work well with RTL. However, there are going to be multicursors in the upcoming release which work reasonably well with RTL text
Comment 3 Waqar Ahmed 2022-08-11 14:54:56 UTC 
Multicursors are now available, please consider using those instead.