Allow user to select multiple items by shift+clicking #210

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1. kuychaco

   added this to the 1: Staff Ship Git Integration milestone on Aug 23, 2016
2. kuychaco

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   list selection/navigation

   on Sep 23, 2016
3. kuychaco commented on Sep 24, 2016

   

   kuychaco

   on Sep 24, 2016

   Last edited by kuychaco

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   To elaborate on this issue:

   To selecting contiguous blocks, the user can currently drag their mouse or hold shift while navigating up/down. This is implemented by setting a tail as the initially selected item and changing head as the user's mouse moves or as they navigate up/down

   Additionally we should allow the user to shift-click to select all the lines between the clicked item and the last selected item

   For comparison, this is what tree-view does. There are a couple inconsistencies I noticed.

   shift-click behavior is inconsistent depending on which direction you're going:

   Subsequent selections after initial selection (expected behavior)

   

   Subsequent selections before initial selection (unexpected behavior)

   

   Tree-view seems to always choose the top-most selected item as the tail.
   

   Another inconsistency in tree-view is that you currently cannot select multiple items with keyboard navigation alone. shift-up/down does nothing.
4. nathansobo

   closed this as completedin #300on Oct 29, 2016