# \[F\] Ctrl-A inside a tag/text field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [March 23, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139 "2009-03-23T20:44:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@loveMusique](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/loveMusique)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/1 "2009-03-23T20:44:18Z")
Hello,
when I edit a tag in the tag panel, then (again) Ctrl-C/V/X act as one is used to in the Windows world.
But Ctrl-A does not mark the contents of the tag field, but all the songs in the list.
Bug or Feature???
Ciao,
Andreas
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/2 "2009-03-26T18:51:00Z")
It's difficult to decide but I'd call it a feature. Especially since moving to a tag field automatically selects its content.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@loveMusique](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/loveMusique)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/3 "2009-03-26T21:15:53Z")
IMHO it is not logical.
When I enter the list of songs, Ctrl-A should mark all songs, when I enter a text field, Cntrl-A should mark the contents of the text field. This is a standard behaviour...
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/4 "2009-03-26T22:44:03Z")
I am totally with you.
The standard editing functions have to take place where the focus is.
And further on - how often I cannot remember - while the last days when editing unsynced lyrics multiline textfields I got crazy about the weird logic on inserting a line break! Once I pressed the CarriageReturn/Enter button I was thrown out of the edit field! This behaviour is not logical.
While editing lines of text I want the look and feel of a text processor, and therefore a standard Enter should cause a standard linefeed/carriage return and not leaving the edit procedure.
Leaving the edit field by pressing Shift+Enter resp. Ctrl+Enter is the better intuitive logic!!!
Florian, please do follow the common standards for common user access.
DD.20090327.0043.CET
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### Author:  [@Andy\_D](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Andy_D)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/5 "2009-03-27T06:45:45Z")
Yup, that would be nice.
I'm wondering for such a long time about this behaviour so it's a kind of Mp3Tag-Standard for me, but I forget it everytime I'm using Mp3tag again.
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### Author:  [@loveMusique](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/loveMusique)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/6 "2009-03-27T22:24:17Z")
The New Line Issue...
Inside an Excel Cell you can insert text and create a New Line with "Alt+Enter".
Inside an HTML WYSIWYG you may take "Shift+Enter" to have a New Line instead of a new paragraph with "Enter".
Inside MS Outlook and there inside a bullet list "Enter" generates a new entry with bullet, and "Shift+Enter" makes a New Line staying inside the current bullet paragraph.
So: "Shift+Enter" or "Alt+Enter" is what you get used to in the MS world...
But Ctrl-a is only defined where the focus is...
Ciao,
Andreas
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/7 "2009-03-28T08:20:10Z")
Just released Mp3tag v2.43 _Now with more Ctrl+A in edit fields_ 🙂
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-ctrl-a-inside-a-tag-text-field/8139/8 "2018-12-28T14:01:12Z")
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