[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Mark All keyboard shortcut doesn't work unless run as admin (Issue #3064)

[alexnerd123]

Windows 10, version 1909
Geany 1.38

When I try to mark all occurrences of a word by highlighting it and pressing ctrl-shift-M (one of my favorite features of geany) it no longer works. Other keyboard shortcuts work fine (ctrl-F and ctrl-H for find and find/replace, for example) so I know geany is receiving my keyboard input (and, you know... its a text editor. It lets my type text lol)

If I highlight a word and right click and use the menus to navigate to Mark All, that works fine. If I right click and use the keyboard to navigate to "search" > "Mark All", that works fine. Its only the keyboard shortcut that fails, and only for this one command (there may be others, but I use this one so often that I noticed very quickly when it stopped working).

Interestingly enough, running Geany as admin fixes the problem. I have no idea if this is a UAC issue??? That doesn't make sense... why would the control and shift keys be "scary"??
I got the idea from troubleshooting another piece of software a while back, greenshot, and it needed to be run as admin to "intercept" the printscreen key in certain cases. That makes enough sense, since printscrn is a global key. But control and shift and M???

Running as admin, unfortunately, isn't "quite" a feasible workaround. Every time I double click a file in explorer to open it in my already-running geany session (as I'm sure you all do all day every day), UAC prompts me if I want to allow geany (from an unverified developer, yadda yadda) to run. I guess thats a "miniature" geany process whos job is detect that theres a main geany running, and shoot the file over to it. I could deal with a UAC prompt once every blue moon, since I honestly leave geany running 24/7, but every time I open a file is a bit much

It does the same thing for both left and right shift and control keys, and I can use them in isolation (ctrl-F works, and shift capitalizes letters, so I know its not a hardware issue)

I'm honestly quite stumped why this stopped working!! Is there any way to troubleshoot if geany is even receiving the keystrokes?? If this were linux, I would use "xev" or something similar, but this is a windows machine I use for work

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