Text selection using keyboard in Windows App is inconsistant

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Aaron Beshears

January 04, 2019 13:29

The following is inconsistent but happens regularly:

Put cursor at end of line
Press the [Shift] key and then press the left arrow

Expected result: Selection continues to add characters with each [Left] arrow press

Actual result: Sometimes, the selection gets reset (right edge of selection get moved).

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Aaron Beshears

January 04, 2019 13:33
This is also an issue when [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [Left Arrow] is used for text selection.
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Frank (Workflowy Support)

January 08, 2019 21:50
Thanks, we'll add this to our lists to fix.
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Edward Ball

February 04, 2019 19:37
Seems to happen about a second after the list item is edited.
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Ryan

May 31, 2019 06:32
Yes, I run into this problem all the time. I'm using the website, not the app. The ends of the selection sometimes get swapped, presumably when autosave happens in the background a few seconds after your last change. It's quite disruptive.
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Alan

August 14, 2019 00:11

Edited
This has been a long-standing problem in both the app and the browser and is still a problem 7 months after the earlier reports. It only happens if you make an edit; eg add a character or two to the end of the line, then shift-left arrow (or ctrl-shift left to select words) a few times and the right-most character (or word) will be un-selected. Has been happening in the browser pretty much all 2019 if my memory is correct; I don't use the app much but it is definitely happening in that at the moment as well.

It doesn't seem to happen the second time you try to select on this line; the action is correct if you retry it.

Using the latest version of the app and Chrome browsers on fully updated Windows 10 Pro.0.18362
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