1.3.10 delete to end: change in display causes more work

[billw58]

If you want to see the current cursor position you can use "Edit menu > Move Cursor > To Selection Start" or "Edit menu > Move Cursor > To Selection End". I know that's not very convenient but you can set a keyboard shortcut.

OK, I take it all back, this is a design decision based on the fact that Audacity can't read your mind.

Coincidentally, I have already set shortcuts for those two commands (<semicolon> and <comma> respectively) since I use them quite often. It never occurred to me that they would work when there was no selection.

I would therefore recommend to roga that he set shortcuts for those commands and use them to display the cursor at the current zoom level. One keystroke as opposed to scrolling or zooming out and then in.

-- Bill

[steve]

....Audacity can't read your mind.

Feature request ?

[roga]

Press the END key.

That does not work in the case I'm describing unless I hit "home" first

R

[roga]

"Edit menu > Move Cursor > To Selection End".

As with "end" that doesn't seem to work unless you move the cursor first

Actually "shift+," seems to be the quickest way of getting the cursor back

I know that's not very convenient but you can set a keyboard shortcut. Personally I just press Ctrl and spin the mouse wheel.

I didn't know about Ctrl + Spin so thanks for that

R

[roga]

I think I understand why Audacity behaves this way. In some cases (a multi-track project), the user might want the display to stay at the current location and zoom level after the delete. In other cases (a single-track project) the user might want the display to scroll to show the cursor. You can't have it both ways, so a design decision had to be made which behaviour was preferred.

-- Bill

OK I understand, thanks for the explanation

R