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Qt permitting, if I could give the text box keyboard focus from the keyboard it'd be another nail in the mouse's coffin.
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QTextEdit for Plain and Markdown, and its descendant QTextBrowser for HTML, seem to be hardcoded in Qt to
not permit giving any keyboard focus, and even begrudgingly any mouse cursor focus. Even the Ctrl+A[#1] Qt shortcut for "Select All Text" in View Mode is non-functional without a mouse to click its context menu.
All I can recommend is that you switch to Edit Mode temporarily using its shortcut, then do what you will with the text using the keyboard, and then "Cancel Column Edits" with its shortcut to return to View Mode with whatever you selected still in the Clipboard.
Note [#1]: Yes, Ctrl+A is
also the shortcut for sorting Search Results by "Author", but the only possible conflict in NV that could arise from that has been de-conflicted. If you switch to Edit Mode, Ctrl+A will apply only to Edit Mode text (Select All Text), and not at all to the sorting of Search Results. Switch back to View Mode, and Ctrl+A only applies to sorting Search Results. Not an issue. If it were, I would change the sorting by Author shortcut to something else, but it isn't. "A" for "Author" is just too intuitive to let go without an effort to keep it.
DaltonST