Bug #50085 Shift + Alt + Arrow key does not select whole words in SQL Editor

• Submitted: 5 Jan 2010 10:03
• Modified: 23 Aug 2011 19:39
• Reporter: Simon Hambly
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.2.11 beta
• OS: MacOS (10.5.8)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[5 Jan 2010 10:03] Simon Hambly

Description:
In SQL Editor Alt + Arrow key moves a word at a time however Shift + Alt + Arrow key does not select a word at a time.  Instead it selects single characters at a time

How to repeat:
- Start workbench
- Open a connection
- Open a SQL script using File -> Open SQL Script
- Move cursor to some text and press Alt + Arrow key (cursor correctly moves to start of next word
- Press Shift + Alt + Arrow key (cursor incorrectly [selects and] moves to the next character.

Suggested fix:
Shift + Alt + Arrow key should select a word at a time.

[5 Jan 2010 10:33] Johannes Taxacher

this sounds like a problem in the scintilla framework we're using for the sql editors. might take some effort to dig into that.

[5 Jan 2010 10:53] Susanne Ebrecht

This seems to be OS related.

ALT + Arrow just moves the cursor one step here and SHIFT-ALT-Arrow marks step by step with the cursor.

What exactly is your feature request now?

[5 Jan 2010 12:39] Simon Hambly

The Alt + Arrow is the standard Mac shortcut key combination (the equivalent to Ctrl + Arrow in Windows) for moving a word at a time.  The Shift + Alt + Arrow is also a standard Mac shortcut (for selecting word at a time).

I would expect cross-platform software to support/respect native OS shortcut keys. 

What puzzles me is why the SQL Editor understands Alt + Arrow but not Shift + Alt + Arrow.

[5 Jan 2010 15:51] Valeriy Kravchuk

Verified just as described. Indeed, this is against usual Mac UI behavior.

[23 Aug 2011 19:39] Philip Olson

Fixed as of 5.2.34, and here's the documentation entry:

        On Mac OS X, the <keycap>Shift+Alt</keycap> +
        <keycap>Arrow</keycap> combination selected individual
        characters instead of words.

[11 Mar 2015 18:23] Chen Guo

This bug still exists with the latest Mac OS Yosemite. Shift + Alt + Arrow only selects one character instead of one word.

[19 May 2015 18:16] Christian Kopp

This bug has reappeared in the latest version 6.3.3 (64bit)

[2 Jun 2015 14:19] Danilo Gonçalves

Confirmed as broken on 6.3.3 (64bit) with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3

[23 Sep 2015 17:15] Philip Olson

There was a regression here, and a proper fix took place in MySQL Workbench 6.3.5. See also MySQL Bug #76526

Thank you for the comments.