Keybinds for micro text editor do not work, making it less efficient to use the editor

[aspizu]

What Happened?

keybinds like ctrl+shift+right don't work

Steps to Reproduce

start micro editor
use keybinds ctrl+shift+right/left

Expected Behavior

keybinds should work

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[jeremypw]

Just tried this on OS7 but I am not familiar with micro, so what do you expect Ctrl + Shift + Left etc to do? For me it is selecting text.

[aspizu]

Just tried this on OS7 but I am not familiar with micro, so what do you expect Ctrl + Shift + Left etc to do? For me it is selecting text.

yes ctrl+shift+left should select a word towards the left

for me it doesnt work because its the shortcut for switching tabs

there should be a option to disable/change these shortcuts

[jeremypw]

Hmm, just tried this again and this time Ctrl+Shift+Left is being captured by Terminal - but I can select text using Shift + Left. Not sure what was happening the first time. But yes, keyboard shortcuts should be passed to a foreground process first before being acted on by Terminal. Introducing a setting to turn off shortcuts would be less likely to find favor.

[jeremypw]

I think making the editor "impossible to use" is perhaps overstating the case.

[aspizu]

I think making the editor "impossible to use" is perhaps overstating the case.

It is usable but these keybinds are important to work efficiently

[stan-janssen]

How about removing the ctrl + shift + left / right shortcuts for switching tabs, since we already have ctrl + pgup / pgdown and ctrl + tab and ctrl + shift + tab for this, and those are consistent with both Files and Web?

After that, we should extend those shortcuts to Code as well, and we’ll have all the elementary default apps on the same shortcuts scheme.

It will also solve this particular problem of not trampling ctrl + shift + left / right for selecting in some of the more advanced TUI text editors.