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    Silly question
    Is there a way to use "page down" to actually select the text, not just move the cursor / line ?

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      Silly question
      Is there a way to use "page down" to actually select the text, not just move the cursor / line ?

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      @AnneRanch
      If you hit replyin this forum, you can select text by pressing shift and "page up" / "page down".

      Software Engineer
      The Qt Company, Oslo

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        @AnneRanch
        If you hit replyin this forum, you can select text by pressing shift and "page up" / "page down".

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        @Axel-Spoerl Axel, good idea ,but...
        in works for couple hundred lines and then it lock up Qt.
        My guess it maybe Ubuntu causing this...

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          @Axel-Spoerl Axel, good idea ,but...
          in works for couple hundred lines and then it lock up Qt.
          My guess it maybe Ubuntu causing this...

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          @AnneRanch said in Using "page down" to select the text ?:

          in works for couple hundred lines and then it lock up Qt.

          In that case there is maybe a better idea: Place the cursor at the position where you want to start the selection. Then use the mouse (scroll wheel or scroll bar) to look for the end of your selection. Make sure that you don't move the input cursor. Now, hold down shift and click at the end. The text will be selected from the old cursor position to the new one. Works really well to select large chunks of text.

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            @AnneRanch said in Using "page down" to select the text ?:

            in works for couple hundred lines and then it lock up Qt.

            In that case there is maybe a better idea: Place the cursor at the position where you want to start the selection. Then use the mouse (scroll wheel or scroll bar) to look for the end of your selection. Make sure that you don't move the input cursor. Now, hold down shift and click at the end. The text will be selected from the old cursor position to the new one. Works really well to select large chunks of text.

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            @SimonSchroeder Yes, I use mouse, but it is not very fast...I have two copies of same code ( one modified with blank lines removed ) ,about thousand lines , and like to move the one I use "up"...

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              @SimonSchroeder Yes, I use mouse, but it is not very fast...I have two copies of same code ( one modified with blank lines removed ) ,about thousand lines , and like to move the one I use "up"...

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              @AnneRanch

              Is this really a Qt issue?
              Selecting 1000 lines, to "move them up" - sounds like a complicated approach to text processing.
              I'd either delete a few lines on top of the 1000, or move a smaller hunk down.

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              The Qt Company, Oslo

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