“Select All” behavior

[nb]

Should ⌘+A/Ctrl+A select only the current block or the whole text?

In the current prototype I am looking at, it selects the whole text.

[jasmussen]

I think this is undecided, and may depend on whether we go with a TinyMCE-is-a-parent vs. TinyMCE-is-a-child approach. If the latter is a really good experience in every other aspect, we'll probably be okay with having Ctrl + A selecting the contents of the selected block, and asking people to go to the markup editor to copy/paste it all.

[melchoyce]

FWIW, this is a flow I do pretty frequently when writing a post — I'll write the draft in WordPress, copy and paste it into Hemingway to edit, then copy/paste it back into WordPress.

[jasmussen]

I'll write the draft in WordPress, copy and paste it into Hemingway to edit, then copy/paste it back into WordPress.

To clarify: do you use the visual or HTML editor for this?

[melchoyce]

Visual. I only use the HTML editor to fix formatting issues like leftover markup.

[mapk]

In regards to the single TinyMCE editor, I feel the command+A should select all content on the page... not just within the block.

[websupporter]

Hi,
just dropped in and tested it a bit. From the experience in the prototype here (https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/) for me it felt CMD+A should mark only the section. You can see it in this small screencast I've made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFBxYIoBMvU

My goal was to get rid of the demo text. As you can see, I tried double-click here, but it stopped at the blue marked text. In the second step I tried CMD+A to get the whole section.

Hope this helps :)

[jasmussen]

Multi block select (#62) is in master. So you can select across blocks.

It would be nice if, when you are inside a text block, ⌘A selected all the text inside that block. When you do not have a block selected, you select all blocks on the page, as what Multi Select does. CC: @iseulde