GEdit - can't select text with keyboard

[Karl F. Larsen]

Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:41:21 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 
>> I have recently installed Ubuntu 9.10. Before that I had the now very
>> old Ubuntu 8.10. With Ubuntu 8.10 GEdit 2.24.0 is the default text
>> editor, in Ubuntu 9.10 it is GEdit 2.28.0. My wife still use GEdit
>> 2.26.1 on Ubuntu 9.04, so I have three different versions to compare to
>> each other.
>>
>> I just opened GEdit for the first time since I installed Ubuntu 9.10 and
>> I noticed that I can no longer select text with Shift+→, Shift+←,
>> Shift+↓ etc. It seems like Shift+→, for example, behaves exactly like →,
>> that is moving the cursor forwards.
>>
>> I just asked my wife to test this on her computer (Ubuntu 9.04, GEdit
>> 2.26.1, just like I mentioned above), end Shift+→ works perfectly for
>> her.
>>
>> Is this a difference between GEdit 2.28.0 and 2.26.1 or is there a
>> setting that went wrong in my case?
>>
>> I can still select text using the mouse, but I find that very
>> inconvenient.
> 
> Seems to be a setting somewhere. I'm using the same version of Ubuntu/
> gedit, but the keyboard selection still works.
> 

	Yes if you start gedit and then select help they tell you all 
about setting up keyboard selection at least on 10.04


73 Karl



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