Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: SuSE RPMs In other words select-all is a little broken, because it should be 100% equivalent to: ctrl+home ctrl+shift+end But unfortunately it isn't and thus you cannot (for example) unselect last rows after select-all.
If I've understand right, this bug is no more reproducible. (you're saying that after CTRL+A you cannot unselect the last rows, right?)
ctrl+a shift+up and you should get everything except for last row
The behaviour depends from the caret: when you do CTRL+A the caret is not moved, instead doing ctrl+home and ctrl+shift+end the caret go to the end, so shift+up behave differently from where the caret is. And this is right :-)
True, but why not add smart feature (I have feeling I proposed something like this for Kate already). Note: if you would like to stay in selection mode after ctrl+a are there _any_ benefits of current fixed behaviour? None. Here is the idea: a) ctrl+a b) following action still keeps the selection? b.1) yes -> place caret on the fly at the end b.2) no -> ok, like today This way you could have both worlds at the same time. UI penalty --> zero. Benefits --> yes, true and smart replacement of ctrl+home + shift+ctrl+end. Ok, so reopening, because this is intention of this wish.
Good feeling :-)) http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150512
Thanks for pointing me out the bug #150512. You're right, the behaviour should be the same on all KDE apps. Actually the kmail composer window use the same widget as korganizer editor. Other editing places are the standard Qt textboxes and kate part. It should be decided a common behaviour and applyed at least to: 1) kate part 2) textboxes 3) richtext editor used in kmail and korganizer ... it seems like not an easy task.
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