Allow multiple similar items selection with shift+click

A similar request like this has been made for several items, but this is usually due to ignorance of alternative ways of selecting a particular item, in your case lyrics. To select several lyrics in succession you can select the region by clicking the beginning and shift +click the last item. This will, as by design, select everything in that region. To change this to only one item such as lyrics, right click the item, like lyrics and chose Select>All similar items in range selection. You will then only have the lyrics (or any other item) selected.

I'm not going to change this from a suggestion, but I am going to generalize the title in case someone comes up with a plan to make this request happen. Perhaps they could use another unused combination such as ctrl+shift+click with a check that the first and last items are similar.

Perhaps the code (app) can discern that one has clicked on two elements that are alike, and then allow the shift+click functionality to work only for those alike elements, rather than necessitating a new, more complex key combination.

A problem with that is I use shift+click on notes to assure I select entire measures when the measures at the ends are tight and I can't find a spot in the measure to click to select it.

I can see that. Perhaps then another shortcut key combination will be required; small price to pay for having the functionality available.

What about, if the original element and the shift+click element are same type and not notes or rests, then we do this new behavior of selecting all similar between the two? That's probably not actually particularly hard to implement; easier than creating a new command...

My initial reaction is that I don't see an issue with the idea. I let you know if I think of a problem though.

That sounds good. ("if the original element and the shift+click element are same type and not notes or rests, then we do this new behavior of selecting all similar between the two")

I have an implementation of this seems to work nicely, will submit a PR shortly.

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6137

Fixed in branch 3.x, commit e678df40f0

_fix #279926: shift+click to select similar

A common request is for click/shift+click to select similar elements.
So for example, click one lyric, shift+click another,
would select all lyrics in that range.

Currently, shift+click of anything but a note or rest
simply selects the elements and loses the previous selection.
This change catches that case, and if there is an element selected,
and the selected element and the shift+clicked elements are same type,
we build a range selection that encompasses thenm both,
then run selectSimilarInRange.
I also check if the two elements are in the same voice,
and if so, I limit the selection to just that voice
rather than all elements on that staff as would normally be the case.
But aside from that, it also allows for selection across staves,
so you can click an articulation on one staff,
shift+click another on another staff,
and all intervening articulations are selected._

Fixed in branch 3.x, commit 436534d85a

_Merge pull request #6137 from MarcSabatella/279926-similar-range

fix #279926: shift+click to select similar_

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.