SHIFT + OPTION + ARROW Down Selection for nodes where there's no new line character present

[johannesmutter]

Expected behaviour:

• Select text only, not node, especially if there are multiple properties in the node

Actual behaviour:

• selects the entire node, instead of up until the end of the current paragraph/ the next new line character

This seems to happen whenever there's no new line character in the text property.

(in the video I thought it's because of new lines disabled, but it's happening if there's no new line character present)

Video (Audio on!):

CleanShot.2026-02-20.at.23.28.31.mp4

[michael]

This doesn't work for the exact same reason why the tripple click doesn't work. Selections leaks out of the containing element, and then selection mapper interprets as a node selection.

[michael]

But wait, the problem is a bit different here. Cmd+Shift+Down does not select until the end of the current line but towards the next line (unless there is an explicit newline character)

E.g. on the svedit demo page, when my cursor is in the title, and I press Cmd+Shift+Down this is the selection I get:

And then of course this is interpreted as a node selection.

[michael]

So i guess this particular issue is a won't fix because we can't influence how the browser interprets cmd+shift+down. All we can do is look at the resulting selection and map to what is most likely the user intention. If you look at the selection above in the svedit.dev hero, it's clear we can't map this to just "dit" is selected.