I would suggest avoiding the issue entirely, and turbo-charge your IDE at
the same time with the following settings:

  mouseOverForKeyboardFocus  --> enabled
  Windows Contents' Are Always Active -->  enabled
  Windows Controls' Are Always Active -->  disabled

It separates window layering from focus, and makes everything "live".  Once
used to, it's nearly impossible to go back.

 - Chris

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 11:37 AM Christoph Thiede <
christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I will quote the bug report from  here
> <https://github.com/MrModder/Autocompletion/pull/25#issuecomment-513546349>
>
> :
>
> > - Open a workspace window, enter some text
> > - press shift+left once
> > - set the keyboard focus to another window
> > - bring focus back to the Workspace
> > - press shift+left once again
> > Instead of selecting two characters, zero characters will be selected
>
> The reason is in PluggableTextMorph>>#mouseEnter:, where the following is
> done:
> ...textMorph editor selectInterval: selectionInterval...
> As the selectionInterval is always positive, this operation destroys any
> editor state where pointIndex < markIndex.
>
> I just disabled this section in my image, and in a rush, I could not find
> out what is missing. What has been the purpose of this snippet?
> I also see this might be a debatable behavior: On the one hand, the user
> might be irritated when he is returning to a textmorph after a long time,
> trying to extend the selection with <shift>Arrow right but the selection is
> shrinked indead. On the other hand, I have activated the
> #mouseOverForKeyboardFocus setting (which is basically genius) and find it
> annoying that the selection behavior changes after repositioning your
> mouse.
> Has this ever been debated before?
>
> I would welcome your opinions!
>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Dev-f45488.html
>
>
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