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Shift+home text edit combo broken in chat

Shrug Dangle
Registered User
Join date: 23 Aug 2005
Posts: 11
11-22-2005 15:14
This may seem silly to you all until you think about how many times you use it, or perhaps if you knew about it you'd have loved it.

With the release of 1.7.5 I seem to have lost the ability to use shift+home in chat to highlight all text from the end the beginning of the line. This only affects the chat bar and no other user interface elements. I think it's a bug personally. I've verified this with four machines all using the Windows viewer.

Here's how to reproduce it:
1. Open chat and type a line of text.
2. hit shift and home to try to highlight from the end of the line to the beginning.
3. You must backspace each character out individually or at keyboard scan rate speed.

Expected behavior is:
1. Open chat and type a line of text.
2. Hit shift and home to highlight from the end of the line to the beginning.
3. Hit escape to clear the line of text.

The work around is if you want to highlight the entire line of text, hit escape, then hit enter again to re-open chat. The entire line will be highlighted. That's easy enough unless you're building and someone walks up to you. Hitting escape will close edit before it closes your chat line. ><

Maybe it's just me but this drove me absolutely batpoop last night trying to build and talk i spatial at the same time. This is a basic Windows and Mac key combination for editing text and I've used it so long it's like missing a thumb. ;)
Brendan Ludd
Second Life Junkie
Join date: 1 Jul 2005
Posts: 36
11-22-2005 15:23
I noticed this as well. However my keyboard's space bar has been acting funny recently and I thought maybe the SHIFT-HOME not working was just another symptom of a dying keyboard. Guess not. Yea I would guess this is some bug that slipped in. I will file a bug report on this tonight when I get home.

Brendan
Xyr Frost
Teh Boss of You
Join date: 2 Mar 2005
Posts: 37
Shift-Home = Necessary!
11-22-2005 15:31
OMG I had the same problem. Forget trying to link up 200 prims on a house and then having to chat, only to typo and lose what you were doing. This needs to be either fixed or reinstituted asap!
Dragon Stryker
Destroyer of Heavens
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 156
11-22-2005 19:26
Oh please gods of SHIFT+HOME... fix this! It's *so* annoying. I use this SO often you wouldn't believe... or rather.. I USE to. :(