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laurent22
Multi-cursor editing: editor loses focus on alt-drag
This is an issue with the behavior of multi-cursor editing in the MD editor. It does work, but the focus jumps around.
I'm talking about placing cursors on multiple lines, like this:
(Image taken from this forum thread. The issue was present even back then, so it's not new. I just hadn't realized immediately that it happens always, not just sometimes.)
Environment
Joplin 2.6.10 (prod, win32)
Client ID: bee3eb494cf64baa81d038c29abc497f Sync Version: 3 Profile Version: 41 Keychain Supported: No
Revision: 98fba37
Windows 10
Steps to reproduce
- hold down alt in the MD editor
- hold down the left mouse button, drag the mouse vertically over multiple lines of text
- release mouse button
- release alt
Describe what you expected to happen
After releasing alt, a cursor should appear on every line I dragged the mouse over, letting me edit in multiple places at once.
Bug: instead, when I release alt, the MD editor loses focus and the Joplin menu is focused instead.
Workaround: the cursor placement apparently does happen correctly; when I press ESC once or twice, the focus moves back from the menu to the editor. I can then press an arrow and the cursors appear in expected places.
My guess is that multilcursor editing might be present because it's a feature of the underlying editor? From the behavior it seems that it could be fixed by not letting alt focus the menu in case a mouse click also happened while it was pressed.
I can't seem to replicate this from your steps (2.6.10, Linux Mint). When I release alt the cursor shows and I can type with multi cursor. Potentially Windows specific?
I tried replicating the problem. When the alt key is released, the focus changes to menubars, which is the default behavior of the alt key in the application. On pressing the alt key back again, the focus comes back to multiple lines, and then we can type.
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