[Lazarus] Text selection with numeric keypad on Linux

[Mattias Gaertner]

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> hat am 20. Dezember 2012 um 15:02
geschrieben:
> Bernd Mueller schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > on Windows the text selection is possible via the numeric keypad in
> > conjunction with the Shift key. For example Shift-End selects the text
> > from the current cursor position to the end of the line.
> >
> > But this does not work on Linux (Ubuntu 8x, 10x in my case). The Lazarus
> > editor seems to ignore the key combination.
>
> This may be a Linux problem. Traditionally the Shift key inverts NumLock
> for the numeric keypad. Not every Linux offers an option "Windows
> compatible Shift key behaviour".
>
> What happens in any other editor, when you press Shift-End etc.?

The standard Text Editor 'gedit' inserts a '1', same as Lazarus.

Mattias