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Support multiple ranges selection

Project Member Reported by ebra...@gnu.org, Jun 9 2018

Issue description

See  Issue 105651  and https://github.com/yoichio/public-documents/blob/master/multiranges.md

Now that we are updating our text rendering stack with LayoutNG, not very related to it directly but how about support this also and see what is missing? See Atom and Visual Studio Code, they won't use this directly in the near future but can benefit from existence of initial support of this if did exist.

WDYT?
 

Comment 1 by ebra...@gnu.org, Jun 9 2018

Cc: yoichio@chromium.org
as https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/41
So far we have not heard demand for this feature from web developers nor users though
Firefox has it.
Since this is not light-weight workload feature, still nice to have.

Comment 3 by ebra...@gnu.org, Jun 11 2018

In Visual Studio Code you can do multiple range select either by holding Option (macOS) and selecting multiple selections or Command+Option+Shift for select multiple lines in a line. Even the fact VSCode use Chrome underneath they had to implement these for themselves but I think it is better to support the feature bring it to a wider audience on the web, if such thing was available online code editors could also offer it to their users.

Comment 4 by hu...@vewd.com, Jun 12 2018

Blocking: 850685

Comment 5 by yosin@chromium.org, Jun 13 2018

Status: Available (was: Untriaged)

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