Change in, and inconsistent behavior from previous version

[Phil]

There appears to be some slight change in behavior of Tab, Shift-Tab and Ctrl-{up-arrow} and Ctrl-{down-arrow} from previous versions, with respected to highlighted text and the location of the cursor.

Regarding Tab and Shift-Tab:

With the cursor at the beginning of a line, use Shift-{down-arrow} to highlight the line, then use Tab to tab the line to the right. The result is the single highlighted line tabbing right, and the cursor moving to the end of the line. Now Shift-Tab, and the line moves back left, but the cursor remains at the end of the line. The cursor re-position seems inconsistent - but that's not the main issue... This does seem different from previous versions of Leo though - because the line following the highlighted lines would also get tabbed.

Now adding Ctrl-{up/down-arrow}:

With the cursor at the beginning of a line, use Shift-{down-arrow} to highlight the line. Then use Ctrl-{up-or-down-arrow}. The highlighted line moves up/down respectively, but so does the line below the highlighted line! This also holds true for Shift-{up-arrow} to highlight the line above the current cursor position.

None of this is terrible. It seems somewhat inconsistent and illogical though. It used to be that Tab and Ctrl-{up-or-down-arrow} would also affect the following un-highlighted line - which I thought odd, but I got used to it. I'm not advocating a return to the old behavior necessarily, but I think it would make sense that these two actions would behave similarly with selected text.

I'm running this:

Leo 6.5-b2-devel, devel branch, build d73d76f206
2021-10-17 09:14:56 -0500
Python 3.7.3, PyQt version 5.12.4
linux

[Edward K. Ream]

Thanks for this report. This new behavior is likely the result of #1731, with PR #1732.

Iirc, the changes were tricky and subtly affected key bindings.

Feel free to file an issue, but only if you really care :-)

Edward