Keyboard Selection of Text
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In Firefox and its email cousin Thunderbird, all you have to do is click at one end of a piece of text you want to copy (anywhere in a web page), and you can select with the keyboard using the Shift and arrow keys, and Shift-Ctrl and arrow keys, just as you would in a text box or a word processing program. I am not that nifty with a mouse, so would very much like this feature in Vivaldi. I've been with Vivaldi and before that Opera for quite a long time, but the lack of this feature makes me want to go back to Firefox.
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I don't know how exactly it is done in Firefox, but in Vivaldi, you have to start a selection before being able to use the arrow keys. So for the moment, as a workaround until this feature request, you can:
- select a few letters with the mouse before using
Shift
/Ctrl
+arrow keys
double-click
on a word to automatically select it, before usingShit
/Ctrl
+arrow keys
- and my favorite, to select a bunch of words:
double-click
on a word, thenShift
+click
in the middle of the last word.
- select a few letters with the mouse before using
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Guilimote - thank you for those hints, but it's still not as good as a single click and then selecting in either direction with the keyboard. For one thing, using the shift key without CTRL or Home doesn't work in the leftward direction, only the rightward.
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