How to deselect text?
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Description
Say I went to some website and used visual mode(or just mouse) to select a certain block of text as shown below:
Now how can I deselect this text using keyboard itself that is using only vimium? With mouse, I would just click on empty space(or div) which would deselect that text(and remove the blue highlight). When I press f however, I can see many links, but there is no dummy link where I can just simulate a click of my mouse to deselect the above selected text.
I also tried pressing escape, which doesn't do much.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Reproduce text selection in Vimium and compare the existing f and Escape behavior, then trace the keyboard-command handling to determine where a keyboard-only deselection action would belong. Done means selected text can be cleared without using the mouse.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100