Cutting from a range should preserve the current Range Selection

[musondanolan]

Your idea

When a user cuts (ctrl+x) from a Range Selection, it should preserve the selection, allowing for faster editing, instead of always converting it to a List Selection.

Problem to be solved

This would allow users to edit the range, as well as to re-paste into the range much quicker.

An example of something this would make much faster is doubling/halving the length of a mixed-note range. With this change, you could quickly press ctrl+x, and ctrl+shift+w/q in order to half or double the length of the range. You could also easily expand or decrease the range using shift+arrow keys.

With the current system, as of Version 4.4.3, when you cut from a range, it uses a list selection on the rests, limiting what a user can do, as List Selection restricts several actions.

However, if a user cuts from a List Selection, the List Selection should also be preserved.

Prior art

No response

Additional context

Ctrl+x and ctrl+shift+w/q used to work, but as of 4.4.3, now requires the user to reselect what was previously selected in order to paste. While minute, this change slows down the workflow for many users.

When cutting from a List Selection, instead of a range, the behavior can remain unchanged, as it would not always be possible to convert it to a Range Selection.

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[MarcSabatella]

I believe this was a possibly unintended side effect of #20984. In previous releases, if you pressed Delete with a range selected, only the initial rest would be selected instead of all the rests within the selection. This is better in general, if not for this particular use case (since paste won't work now). But keeping it a range would be better still. MuseScore has never done that but it makes sense to me.

To be clear, though - in order to paste, you don't need to reestablish the full selection. Just click the initial rest. So it's always literally a single click.

The specific consequence that paste half/double duration no longer works directly after a cut would be potentially solved even better by #24385, which would allows Q and W to work "in place" with various types of selections.

[XiaoMigros]

@MarcSabatella what about just for deleting range selections? If that's kept as a range selection too, the user can still move the input cursor without having to deselect/reselect anything

[MarcSabatella]

Isn't that true either way? Left/Right behave in reasonable (and essentially identical) ways whether there is a list or range selection, as far as I can see.