Comment 5 for bug 1782382

So it looks like it’s platform-specific to anything-but-OSX.

In 5.1 we delay setting the initial focus until after the dialog is displayed (because OSX refuses to SetFocus to a non-visible window). However, this delay puts the SetFocus call after TransferDataToWindow, where the selection is set to the ‘?’. On OSX setting the focus doesn’t change the selection, but I’m guessing that on Win and Linux it does.

> On 18 Jul 2018, at 19:43, Wayne Stambaugh <email address hidden> wrote:
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> The guilty commit is 06bf958bf1953220f813d9f8f22e0fe42e11818c.
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> Title:
> Edit Reference Highlight Has Changed
>
> Status in KiCad:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Hitting E, over the reference field in Eeschema has changed.
> Now, hole reference text is highlighted. <R?>
> Previously only the question mark was highlighted like R<?>.
>
> previews highlight option was faster since it is only necessary to hit
> E and type the new value.
>
> Can this be a bug or a new feature?
> If it is a new feature it is not as good as the previews way.
>
> Using
> Version: 6.0.0-rc1-unknown-879ffa4~65~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
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