[racket] DrRacket editor behaviour change

Glad to hear it is back to normal and thanks for letting us know!

Robby


On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:07 PM, bhrgunatha <bhrgunatha at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Sorry - yes I DID mean shift+down once the selection is highlighted not
> down by itself.
>
> I checked my keybinding settings as you asked and they are the same as you
> mentioned.
>
> I've been trying out previous versions (to find where the behaviour
> changed).
> I've since re-installed 5.3.3 completely and it's behaving correctly now,
> so I assume it's something else that caused the problem.
> Perhaps I should have done that before bothering the list here. Sorry.
>
> Still it seems to be back to usual now.
>
> Bhrgunatha
>
>
>
> On 24/03/13 01:59, Robby Findler wrote:
>
> The keystrokes suggests (control-shift-home and then down) don't move the
> selection for me; after the down, I go back to the unselected state.
>
>  Meanwhile, control-space, control-n works in the way you would seem to
> want it to work. Is there some more complex sequence that causes trouble?
>
>  Robby
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca>wrote:
>
>> Robby wrote:
>>
>>  Just to double check: you mean shift-down, not just down, right?
>>>
>>> DrRacket does indeed implement those keystrokes itself, but I'm seeing
>>> what
>>> you describe as the 5.3.1 behavior in 5.3.3 and in the git head under mac
>>> os x and under a relatively recent git version under linux.
>>>
>>> When you choose the Edit | Keybindings | Show Active Keybindings menu
>>> item
>>> and search for home, do you see "select-to-beginning-of-file" as the
>>> c:s:home key and when you search for "s:down" do you see "select-down" as
>>> the corresponding keystroke?
>>>
>>
>>  No, I think he meant down. I noticed something similar some time after
>> upgrading to 5.3.2. I use c:space to "set mark" and c:n to move forward a
>> character in Emacs with the intention of later doing a selection between
>> mark and point. In 5.3.1, I was able to do this in DrRacket, that is, the
>> Emacs cursor commands extended the selection. Now it doesn't happen any
>> more. I did look in the keybindings and notice that shift seemed to be
>> needed now. Still haven't figured out if I want to change the keybindings
>> or change my behaviour. --PR
>>
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