Unable to select multiple lines

It’s not possible to select more than one editor block (e.g. paragraph).

Further issues:

• Ctrl+A select just one block
• Unable to select soft-lines with Shift and arrow keys

Block backport of https://github.com/marktext/marktext/pull/2835 and https://github.com/marktext/marktext/pull/2853, if needed.

[fxha]

if you select a text from starting from | in foo to | in bar, it will select the two paragraphs, and highlight the two paragraphs, not only the oo\nbar, and not the whole document too.

I always wondered whether this behavior was expected in Notion and rather thought of a bug because it’s not intuitive for a text editor. It feels very pain if you think about Office 365 or Google Docs, but you are restricted to edit only within a block/line. I would expect that many user would be unhappy with this change because editing will come more restricted. What’s the core issue to forbid this? Why couldn’t we update the page selection from the internal cursor that is counted forward/backwards on arrow key input and mouse movement?

[Jocs]

I don’t really understand this. You mean that a user can only select text within a block or all blocks with “select all”?

Maybe my statement wasn’t clear enough, for example, if you select a text from starting from | in foo to | in bar, it will select the two paragraphs, and highlight the two paragraphs, not only the oo\nbar, and not the whole document too.

<mark>f|oo

ba|r</mark>

zar

Another example, it will select the two list items if foo and bar are two list items in the same list.

<mark>- f|oo
- ba|r</mark>
- zar

We will find the nearest common ancestor of the two selection blocks(anchor block and focus block), and then select all blocks between these two blocks under this ancestor.