Selecting multiple books with SHIFT + Home/End - change?

[LucyOne]

I have just installed Calibre 2.30 on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I think something has changed in the functionality of Calibre in selecting books with SHIFT and the Home/End keys. I'm fairly positive that it used to be possible to select multiple books by holding the SHIFT key and pressing Home or End. Now all it does is going to the left or right horizontal end of the line, it does not move and select books up to the top or the end of the list. Ctrl, SHIFT + Home doesn't do it either, just the top line becomes selected, like when you just press Ctrl.

As I see it now, there is no way to select all the books from a certain line to the top or the end with just one keystroke combination. Is there a way to get the old keyboard shortcuts back? This functionality was extremely useful and I need it very often.

[kovidgoyal]

There have been no changes to keyboard handling in 2.30.

IIRC, Home and End have always gone to the start and end of the current line and Ctrl+Home/End to the start and end of the book list. If not always, then certainly for a very long time.

As for Shift+Ctrl+Home/End I dont know if they ever worked.

[LucyOne]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

IIRC, Home and End have always gone to the start and end of the current line
and Ctrl+Home/End to the start and end of the book list.

This is weird because I don't remember that behaviour. I might be confusing Home/End with PageUp/Dn, but I'm still pretty sure something was different.
I recently got a new computer maybe that shook up my memory.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

As for Shift+Ctrl+Home/End I dont know if they ever worked.

Could you implement that?

[BetterRed]

@LucyOne - what version of calibre were you using before you installed version 2.30.

As Kovid wrote ". . .start and end of the book list. If not always, then certainly for a very long time." I recall Kovid did do some tidying up in this regard... 2-3 years ago.

I use the keyboard more than most, so I'm also more sensitive to any changes than most. In this regard I've not noticed any.

Shift+Page up/down will select all books above and below current book respectively.

What would you have Shift+Ctrl+Home/End do?

If your new computer has a new keyboard that could also confound you. I often get caught out on other peoples keyboards which don't have keys where I'm habituated to having them.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

Could you implement that?

This is handled internally by Qt, while I could override it in calibre, it is rather more work than is worth it for me, patches are welcome.

[LucyOne]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@LucyOne - what version of calibre were you using before you installed version 2.30.

2.29

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I use the keyboard more than most, so I'm also more sensitive to any changes than most. In this regard I've not noticed any.

OK, then my hands' memory mixed things up.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Shift+Page up/down will select all books above and below current book respectively.
What would you have Shift+Ctrl+Home/End do?

Shift+PgUp/Dn selects only all books visible at the moment above or below the current book, Shift+Crtl+Home/End should select all books from the current one to the top or bottom of the whole list.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If your new computer has a new keyboard that could also confound you.

The keyboard's the same, I probably got confused from working in another programme.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

Shift+PgUp/Dn selects only all books visible at the moment above or below the current book,

you're right - I more often select a few books with shift+Up/Down Arrows or everything with ctrl+A. You can do multiple Shift+PgUp/Dn to extend the range -- which is what I probably do, as and when I need to.

Originally Posted by LucyOne

Shift+Crtl+Home/End should select all books from the current one to the top or bottom of the whole list.

I'll leave that one Kovid.

BR