musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Allow non-contiguous range selections
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Description
Requested previously with relevant conversation in https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/13579 and https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/33438.
We should allow range selections to be made that span multiple different horizontal or vertical areas. Some use cases:
- Select two measures on non-adjacent instruments to quickly solo playback for just those instruments
- Select two non-adjacent measures on the same instrument to copy/paste material (related to copy/pasting list selections)
- Make it technically possible to make a range selection across instruments without selecting any hidden staves between them (#21266)
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