On 13 May 2015, at 15:30, Tom Smyth wrote:
Is there a key for this? I know you can go to the start of the line or up depending on the type of selection but that requires a certain cognitive overhead in my experience and it would be so much easier to have a single consistent key that cancels it and returns to the original single selection. Is there one that I don't know about?
There is no key for this, but a mouse click will do, or the up/down action (as you mention).
The problem is finding a good key, i.e. will you remember something like ⇧⌘⎋ or just do the up/down when you want to go back to a single caret?
Though with the existing convention of single-tapping option to toggle selection type, and with Apple’s introduction of double-tapping fn for dictation, perhaps double-tapping shift could work.
I wonder though if it should just “pop” the last selection, this would then also work as an undo for ⌃W (select next word) which is sometimes requested. But it might be a little tedious if you have many carets/selections.
Input?