things you can't do during measure selection

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, "range selection" is what I meant.

Re: text, for me there are enough instances where a passage recurs with the same notes/rhythms but different performance instructions/tempo/mute/number of repeats/etc. that it is annoying not to be able to go directly from pasting to text entry. And "range selection" is almost always the preferable way to copy and paste conventional notes+rhythms notation...right? Secondarily, when mousing it is sometimes easier to click the empty part of a measure (a bigger target) than to click on a rest or notehead (depends a lot on the zoom; and I do try to mouse as little as possible, e.g. by using ctl-F to navigate to the general area where I want to make a selection, but there's a 50/50 chance that I'm either working around measure numbers or that they're not relevant; in that case I have to guess the number and then do a lot of arrow keying; also have noticed that after a section break the visible measure numbers reset but the ctl-F feature doesn't, hence the new measure 1 might actually be measure 258).

Re: "it's not intended that you can press a number key to change duration with a range selected - consider, what if you have 7 measures selected across 4 staves?"
Well, say that these 7 measures x 4 staves are ostinato accompaniment, written as steady staccato eighth notes. Indeed, the concept of typing 6 to make each note a half note is ambiguous; but typing 3 to make them all sixteenth notes IS at least an imaginable concept, since their metrical positions could be maintained even as their durations are shortened. The result of the latter action as I'm imagining it would be that, wherever there previously was an eighth note, now there is a sixteenth note followed by a sixteenth rest. This could be very useful if, say, you change your mind mid-process regarding staccato eighths vs. sixteenth note+sixteenth rest. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've seen a number of old threads here requesting various types of batch editing for note duration; e.g. https://musescore.org/en/node/269317, where you wrote "There are plugins that attempt this but don't work well"; seems to me that many simple cases, like the one I just constructed, could (potentially) be resolved by making the number keys functional during range selection; of course non-"simple" cases would require decisions to be made about outcomes, e.g. when you select a 4/4/bar full of eighth notes and type 6, do you get two half notes or eight of them?)

I will see what's shaking with the issue tracker, and will forgo the pictures unless/until my prose manages to confuse someone badly enough.

Great, thanks. And when you arrow-key out of this R process, you exit to the first staff you selected, not the last one, which is the opposite of what happens in my original example. So, someone at some point thought that it made the most sense to exit to the first staff and implemented this in the R command. But if you are pasting somewhere other than the very next bar and you arrow-key out of your selection, you'll be in the bottommost staff, not the topmost like with R.

From what I can tell, the issue is that "range selection" using shift+up/down does more than just select: it also behaves like alt+up/down (don't know what to call this..."moving up or down a staff?") I think this makes sense. But if R is used, this behavior is somehow overridden. How about also overriding it if ctrl+C is used?

P.S. How did you get the R key icon in your post? And special formatting in general? Code it in the body of the post? I'm not seeing any built-in formatting tools at all in my browser window, just a text field and a "File attachments" feature.