Rodrigo Rosales

I can reproduce this in 2019 and 2021, so looks like the change came in 2019. I think there is a clash between this and the Ctrl+A that is used to select all text in the target segment you are in because if you remove, or change, that keyboard shortcut from here:

Then it all works fine.  Probably not helpful given you most likely use Ctrl+A in the target segment to select text too, but at least that helps to identify the issue.  There were some changes in 2019 around wide ranging selections, being able to select all segments for example, so perhaps things got changed there... not sure.

I would be interested in your usecase for selecting text to copy from this search window?  Seems a rather unusual thing to do given you normally put text in there, not take it out.  I imagine this issue went relatively undetected for this reason, so I am interested to know why you do it?

Rodrigo Rosales

I can reproduce this in 2019 and 2021, so looks like the change came in 2019. I think there is a clash between this and the Ctrl+A that is used to select all text in the target segment you are in because if you remove, or change, that keyboard shortcut from here:

Then it all works fine.  Probably not helpful given you most likely use Ctrl+A in the target segment to select text too, but at least that helps to identify the issue.  There were some changes in 2019 around wide ranging selections, being able to select all segments for example, so perhaps things got changed there... not sure.

I would be interested in your usecase for selecting text to copy from this search window?  Seems a rather unusual thing to do given you normally put text in there, not take it out.  I imagine this issue went relatively undetected for this reason, so I am interested to know why you do it?

Hello, Paul. Thanks for the reply. Indeed, that helps to identify the issue. It's just that I'm used to using the shortcut to select everything in the search field for deleting the whole thing and then search for a particular term or phrase by typing it, so it's easier using the Select all shortcut that the Shift + left/arrow one. 

It appears, for some reason, whenever the search box is open, the Crtl+A shortcut still only applies to the currently selected segment or any part of the project instead of the open and active search box field, which should be the focus, if that makes sense. 

Would it be possible to escalate this to the dev team? For me, while not a serious issue, it is sort of an annoyance, since I have to rely on a longer alternative to do that I want, which is to select everything in one go. 

Rodrigo Rosales

Rodrigo Rosales said:

Would it be possible to escalate this to the dev team? For me, while not a serious issue, it is sort of an annoyance, since I have to rely on a longer alternative to do that I want, which is to select everything in one go. 

Of course.  I don't think the priority will be very high, but it may be something simple once they look at it and then it could get delivered in an upcoming release.

Paul,

My experience is different:

CTRL+A works fine in Trados Studio 2019: in the Editor and in the Find & Replace dialog box.

If I change the shortcut to CTRL+W, this shortcut works in the Editor, but not in the Find & Replace dialog box, and interestingly enough, CTRL+A works now in the Find & Replace dialog box. That's why I assumed it was the localized shortcut to Select All.

If I reset the shortcut to CTRL+A everything works as expected in Target segment and F&R dialog box.

Of course, I closed all the AutoHotkey scrips before testing.

Jesús Prieto said:

CTRL+A works fine in Trados Studio 2019: in the Editor and in the Find & Replace dialog box.

Jesús Prieto

That is indeed interesting.  I may close my autohotkey scripts later just in case that is making a difference.  I reset Studio defaults when I did this and can reliably reproduce the issue.  Will be interested in what the support team tell me when they take a look later.