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How can you modify text selection using [shift][right arrow]? The standard behaviour is awful: when I select too far and want to go back one step using [shift][left arrow] it extends the selection on the left, rather than unselecting from the right.

As far as I can tell nobody knows how to do this, as this old post in another forum, lamenting the same problem, never got a reply:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/mathematica-text-selection-behavior.217967/

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    Which version are you using? There's no such problem with 10.4.1 for Linux x86 (64-bit) (April 11, 2016). – corey979 Nov 24 '16 at 13:24
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    It was indeed like that in the past, but it has changed a long time ago. Version 9 already has a modern selection behaviour. The current version is 11. – Szabolcs Nov 24 '16 at 13:26
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Mathematica 8 (released in Novermber 2010) already has the the usual modern selection behaviour. Earlier versions had the behaviour you describe. The easiest solution is to upgrade.

Reference:

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