Issue 102151 - keep cursor at start position while expanding selection
Summary: keep cursor at start position while expanding selection
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 97093
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: DEV300m48
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: spreadsheet
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2009-05-22 16:37 UTC by kyoshida
Modified: 2009-09-24 13:26 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: PATCH
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patch to change the behavior (25.50 KB, patch)
2009-05-22 16:38 UTC, kyoshida 		no flags Details | Diff
revised patch, fixed lots of regressions. (28.65 KB, patch)
2009-06-16 19:20 UTC, kyoshida 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description kyoshida 2009-05-22 16:37:26 UTC 
When expanding a selection, the cursor should stay at the starting cell, instead
of moving with the tip of the selection.  This is especially important for power
users who navigate cells via key strokes.  For them, place the cursor at the end
of the selection is wrong.

I also talked about this in my blog:
http://kohei.us/2009/05/22/range-selection-and-cursor/
Comment 1 kyoshida 2009-05-22 16:38:06 UTC 
Created attachment 62447 [details]
patch to change the behavior
Comment 2 kyoshida 2009-06-16 19:20:18 UTC 
Created attachment 63031 [details]
revised patch, fixed lots of regressions.
Comment 3 niklas.nebel 2009-06-30 16:45:00 UTC 
At the risk of stating the obvious: The current behavior is fully intentional.
Comment 4 kyoshida 2009-06-30 16:50:36 UTC 
and this may come as a surprise, but I'm proposing to change the current behavior.
Comment 5 kyoshida 2009-08-31 01:42:14 UTC 
It's a dupe as it turned out.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 97093 ***
Comment 6 Mechtilde 2009-09-22 20:46:31 UTC 
duplicate -> closed
Comment 7 kpalagin 2009-09-24 11:39:01 UTC 
Kohei,
do you think we will get this usefull enhancement in 3.3?
Thanks a lot for your effort - we really appreciate it!
Comment 8 kyoshida 2009-09-24 13:26:07 UTC 
@kpalagin: I'd love to, but unfortunately it's not up to me to decide.  You need
to convince the project lead.