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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by Dalewyn on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:39AM (#36388725)
>CTRL+Shift+End selects all from where you are to the end

>CTRL+Shift+Home selects all from where you are to the top

Those two don't need CTRL, just so you know.

>One of the (many) problems of web UIs is they often ignore the keyboard completely.

They are also starting to ignore the mouse.

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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by bambax on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:55AM (#36389998)
> Those two don't need CTRL, just so you know

Well, yes they do, only it's different with and without CTRL. For example in a text editor (or a normal webpage without any fancy JS):

- Shift+End goes to the end of the line

- CTRL+Shift+End goes to the end of the document

and the same is true for Home (substitute "end" with "beginning").

I have seen people, even "technical" people, select a text with the mouse from the middle of a large Word document to the end, because they didn't know this.

They also had to do it often (several times a day) and it had become a significant part of their workload...

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