Bug 145050 - Selection not working properly
Summary: Selection not working properly
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2021-10-10 23:37 UTC by Thomas Hehl
Modified: 2022-10-19 10:31 UTC (History)
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The document I'm editing (193.19 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2021-10-10 23:37 UTC, Thomas Hehl
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Description Thomas Hehl 2021-10-10 23:37:32 UTC
Created attachment 175628 [details]
The document I'm editing

In the attached file, scroll down on page one to find the section:

The Eternal’s edict let me tell:
    6 	“I, I have installed my king on Sion, on my sacred hill.”
    7 	Let me tell the Eternal’s mes­
sage:
“You are now my son, this day am I your father;
ask, and I make you master of
pagans,
lord over all to the ends of the earth;

I'm not sure what this is, but it's probably some kind of division.

1) with the cursor outside of this section of test in what I'll refer to as the main document, hit control-A. Notice everything gets selected but this section.

2) Clear the selection and place the mouse cursor to the left of the "The Eternal's" and drag the mouse down. The selection will mysteriously stop before "2 ask,"

3) Clear selection again. Place the cursor to the left of "The Eternal's" and hold down shift and use cursor down. After selecting the line "ask, and..." pressing shift down again will clear the selection.

Thanks for a great product.
Comment 1 Thomas Hehl 2021-10-10 23:38:19 UTC
Recreated 100% on Windows 10.
Comment 2 Richard George 2021-10-14 17:48:45 UTC
I'd say this is expected operation - the items you're referring to 2 footnotes defined just above 'then in wrath he speaks to them, scares them with his fury'. 
Their selection is implicit in the selection of the main text, and the secondary effect you're seeing is the selection of the individual footnote.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2022-10-19 10:31:43 UTC
(In reply to Richard George from comment #2)
> I'd say this is expected operation - the items you're referring to 2
> footnotes defined just above 'then in wrath he speaks to them, scares them
> with his fury'. 
> Their selection is implicit in the selection of the main text, and the
> secondary effect you're seeing is the selection of the individual footnote.

No response, so let's assume we can close this.