Thanks for the replies, everybody. SteveG(AudioMasters) wrote You seem to have overlooked the words 'such as'. Nowhere does that statement say that you are required to be able to extend a selection using the shift key - it merely suggests the possibility. First, how did I "seem to overlook" "such as?" That means "for example," so what? The sentence could very well say, "All Microsoft-approved applications must allow keyboard users to make extended selections such as selecting two or more items in a list or highlighting several paragraphs of text." So there we have the phrase "such as" in a statement of requirement. One has nothing to do with the other. Second, you can cite guidelines, but when I do so they're just vague "possibilities?" That's not the tenor of the documentation at all. They are guidelines, and explicitly state A well-designed keyboard UI allows keyboard users to make extended selections such as selecting two or more items in a list or highlighting several paragraphs of text They go on to provide guidance on a comprehensive set of selection situations. Not exactly "behold the wonderland of possibilities!" And finally: There's absolutely no benefit to defying this convention. It's not as if Adobe has re-used these hotkeys for some innovative new approach; they currently do nothing. Not to mention that this convention is observed elsewhere in Adobe's own applications, so not only is Audition inconsistent with the vast majority of GUI applications on every platform, but with Adobe's own. Incidentally, I'm not condoning this in any way; I'm merely trying to explain why it is, and in fact why Adobe think that there's a good reason for it, although only from their POV, admittedly. Understood, except for the last part: I've yet to see any justification for this missing functionality, let alone a good one. ryclark Using the Shift key with the Left or Right arrow keys moves the In point of the selection to the left or right whilst Shift+Ctrl moves the Out point of the selection on the Waveform view. Thanks, ryclark. But that's still a problem, regardless of whether there is a Mac-specific bug here or not. 1. If your playhead is just sitting there in the waveform with no selection, and you press Shift + right arrow, does it extend a selection to the right? 2. If you set a couple of markers and use Alt-arrow to navigate to one and then Shift-Alt-arrow to navigate to the next, is the range between then selected? 3. If you click and drag from left to right in the waveform to make a selection, and then use Shift-arrow to adjust that selection, does the right end of the selection move? Because that's what you should be adjusting if you dragged from left to right; the right edge is the active end of the selection. If you dragged from right to left, the left edge (In point) should be the active one. Otherwise, how are you supposed to adjust the Out point? You should see similar behavior if you select part of a line of text in your favorite text editor and adjust the selection with the arrow keys. I just tried Word, and it worked as I described. Thanks for the further info about the spectral view. Audition switches to the marquee tool by default when you enable it for some reason, even though only the standard insertion-point tool is shown in the waveform pane. I'll experiment with your method and see how I like it. Unfortunately, the spectrum pane still suffers from the same selection problems as the waveform pane, except for being able to move the selection. Looking at it again, this brings up an obvious question: Why can't you drag the selection in the waveform pane in exactly the same way you can in the spectral one?
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