On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:52:03PM -0400, Pravin A. Sable wrote:
> Hello All,
> 	In Squeak environment on WinXP, while selecting text through
> keyboard by using left and right arrow keys, doesn't work, the way it
> works in normal windows applications. Actually there is no way to unselect
> once selected text through left and right keys. Selection just keeps on
> growning whatever direction keys are press. I am sure there must be some
> reason to this in squeak and there must be some setting to change this to
> default windows behavior. I think there should be some option that will
> allow user to replicate all the functionality of the normal windows text
> editor, like selection, short keys etc. Can anybody help in this?
> 
Torge Husfeldt fixed this. His latest patch was posted some days
ago to the list, but there's an older version on SqueakMap, that's
maybe easier to install:

 http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/package/1d659bea-5ecc-4cf5-ac0c-4d8cf132f680

 ShrinkingSelection
 Summary: Overhaul of the ParagraphEditor selection hanlding. Allows for
 selections to shrink
 Author: Torge.Husfeldt at gmx.de
 Maintainer: Torge Husfeldt

Marcus

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