Keyboard-driven text-selection faulty

G’day
I thought I raised this before, but cannot find reference to it either here or in the bug tracker. Sorry if I’m repeating myself.
Often I’ll find myself towards the end of a line of code, and wanting to select everything back to an earlier point (to lowercase it, or whatever). I do this by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-LEFT_ARROW, holding my finger down as it selects word-by-word back to where I want selected (if that makes sense).
What I’m finding is that fairly often CFB will actually cancel what I have selected, and start selecting again from the current cursor position. So I’ll only end up with the second half of what I was intending to highlight actually selected.
Initially I put this down to a flaky keyboard, but I’ve now experienced it on three computers, and also I don’t have it happening in any other application. So it’s fairly certain it’s a bug in CFB.
Another twist on this is that I have just noticed that I am also getting it when using CTRL-SHIFT-UP_ARROW to select blocks of text vertically.
It’s a minor thing, but it’s pretty annoying.
Anyone else notice this?
Adam

Amy~ Yep the lasso tool was what I verified with another user. 'L' seems to be bound indefinitely to loop through different types of lasso tools and it was annoying them because they just wanted L to be the regular freehand lasso. I removed 'L' from being an option on the polygon lasso and even set it explicitly to SHIFT+L as well as set the lasso tool to a completely different keyboard combo. 'L' still cycled through lassos haha. It needs some fixes.
fertolg~ At least you have a workaround for now. I'd go nuts if I couldn't use keyboard text selection writing code, oy! You're welcome and if you're all set please mark correct so we can filter unanswered. Good luck!

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