Text-selection mechanism all screwed up in KeyNote 6.2

Trying to select text with shift + arrowkeys,  or shift + alt + arrowkeys,  is all screwed up in KeyNote 6.2 (OS X). The text selection often jumps forward in an erratic manner (much too far ahead than usual, often skips entire words).
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Personally, this bugs the @@@@ out of me when trying to type text. And often I even loose important parts of my texts entirely.

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