Excalidraw: Proposal: Selection like AutoCAD

[ReneCode]

sometimes it's a little bit difficult to select an element because the selection window does not completely cover its bounding box. The way the selection windows it created can change the selection behavior:

• Draw a window from left to right. All objects completely inside the window frame will be selected. (current behavior)
• Draw a window from right to left. All objects completely or partly inside the window frame, will be selected. (additional behavior)

Window-selection / crossing-selection of AutoCAD explained here:
https://www.cadtobim.com/object-selection.html

[dwelle]

Surprisingly, this was requested once already: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/692

[dwelle]

While we're likely not implement the AutoCAD right-click behavior, we might investigate switching the behavior (but no promises).

I'm gonna close this one in favor of https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/2377

[lipis]

TBH I think the AutoCAD approach is the best from both worlds.. :) (I used to AutoCAD in the past)