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Moving the cursor when scrolling in the history to select text #4985
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Description of the new feature/enhancement
Currently we can scroll up and down in the history with the keyboard but the cursor remains at the bottom.
That's why, when we want to copy/paste something from the history we have to use the mouse.
The idea is that when we scroll up and down with the keyboard, the cursor is following.
Also once the cursor is inside the history, we can move right and left with the keyboard to select the text we need.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Reacted by Matthew A Cargile
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zadjii-msft commentedon Mar 18, 2020
Carlos Zamora (@carlos-zamora) this sounds like a good idea to include as part of the #715/#2840 spec. I'll leave it to you if you want to leave this open or merge it in with that one.
fullenw1 commentedon Mar 18, 2020
Mike Griese (@zadjii-msft)
Oh yes! I've searched before opening this issue but probably not with the right keywords...
You can merge to either of them. I never merged an issue, but I think I don't have permissions to do that. Can you do it for me please? Or just guide me :)
zadjii-msft commentedon Mar 18, 2020
Oh I mostly meant that Carlos Zamora (@carlos-zamora) should be the one to merge it. He might want to leave this open as a child task on that issue - sometimes we'll do that for larger features that comprise a bunch of smaller tasks. Since he owns this whole feature area, I'm leaving the decision up to him
fullenw1 commentedon Mar 18, 2020
Ah ok :)
Sorry for the misunderstanding!
carlos-zamora commentedon Mar 18, 2020
I'll leave this open for now. I want to make sure I update the spec. Thanks!
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carlos-zamora commentedon Jun 28, 2022
Ok, now that a good amount of mark mode and keyboard selection is done, we (will) have support for the following navigation schemes:
If you hit a viewport boundary, we automatically scroll.
The ask here is that the scroll key bindings automatically move the cursor and force it to be within the viewport. But I think the starred (*) items above may be sufficient to address the issue. I also think there's still a use case for keyboard scrolling without moving the cursor.
So I'm going to close this out, but I'm open to discussing it more if I'm missing something.
Closed by #10824
carlos-zamora commentedon Jul 20, 2022
From #13533...
Design-wise, I'm thinking of it this way:
In order to accomplish that, I think we need to wait for #13516 because the "single cell selection" means that there's always a selection :/
zadjii-msft commentedon Aug 21, 2024
Carlos Zamora (@carlos-zamora) did we do this?
carlos-zamora commentedon Aug 21, 2024
Yeah, I'm gonna close this out. We're able to select text using the keyboard and move the viewport around.