Selecting All Text With "CMD+A" or "CTRL+A"

[themightymo]

Issue Overview

I do a lot of "selecting all" text using CMD+A. In Gutenberg, CMD+A selects text in the current block-only.

In Medium, Word, Gmail, Notes, etc. CMD+A selects all text.

Gutenberg has different behavior for CMD+A than what I'm used to and what I expect.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Write 2 blocks of text
2. Press CMD+A (or CTRL+A on PC).

WP 4.9.4
Gutenberg 2.2.0

Expected Behavior

CMD+A should select all text like this Medium example:

Current Behavior

CMD+A selects only the current block

Screenshots / Video

[youknowriad]

If no block is selected Ctrl + A selects all the blocks, we're planing to improve the current behavior to do a two step Ctrl + A when you're on a textual block. First Ctrl + A selects the first block, second one selects the whole content. cc @jasmussen @iseulde

[jasmussen]

See also #4369 which we are considering.

[youknowriad]

I'm going to close this one as a duplicate of #4369 Let's continue the discussion there.

[themightymo]

@youknowriad @jasmussen
Brilliant! Sorry for the duplicate - I searched but didn't find it yesterday.

Keep up the great work! I'm loving Gutenberg!