Re: [Pan-users] selecting multiples via the keyboard?

[Duncan]

On Fri 28 Feb 2003 21:17, Chris Petersen posted as excerpted below:
> I just upgraded to .13.4 (forget which .13.x release I was using last)
> and all of a sudden control-shift-home/end don't work for selecting
> articles.  Being able to select large bunches of articles with the
> keyboard was a great help, since scrolling is often so slow (btw, I'd
> also like to request a control/shift modifier to the scroll wheel for
> speeding up scroll speed)...

Keyboard selection in general hasn't worked right since the upgrade to gtk2 w/ 
0.12.0.  That has been due to having to use an old widget with limited 
features, because the full featured one hasn't been fast enough in gtk2 yet 
for realistic updating performance.  They had to choose between having 
keyboard and mouse selection, as the work around for one broke the other.  
They chose mouse.

That said, until now, cs-home/end worked to select from current message to top 
or bottom, which was nice.  It appears in fixing one thing, they broke 
another, however.  See the 0.13.4 announcement here, on announce, or on the 
site.  Under Tweaks, see #88869, reported by Martin Schrode. back on 0.11.x.  
They fixed simple home and end to go to top and bottom, with 0.13.4, but 
apparently broke cs-home/end selection at the same time, unfortunately.

I'd suggest filing a bug report, and maybe they can have both working with 
0.14.1, hopefully without breaking something ELSE!  <g>

-- 
Duncan
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