Shift+select 2 continuous segments deselects the middle point

[mrk-z]

If I shift+select 2 continuous segments, the middle point between the 2 segments would then be deselected.

I don't think it is supposed to behave like this? When I select 2 segments, I'd want to select all the points in order to edit both segments. Currently there is an extra step to re-select the middle point.

https://github.com/googlefonts/fontra/assets/56224289/fd6f5521-31ae-41af-a2e6-0c922d811e04

[justvanrossum]

This is indeed unintuitive behavior. Shift "inverts" with the existing selection, which explains your observation.

But you can do alt-click instead (which always only adds to the selection), but soon this will actually be command-click as I changed that shortcut. (I changed the shortcut today, it just hasn't been deployed yet.)

[justvanrossum]

I will try to think how this could be made to work more intuitively with shift as well.

[justvanrossum]

This can only be improved if we can have "segment selection" in addition to "point selection". That's something we will ultimately need, but is a big task, and I haven't determinded to right approach for it yet.