[scribus] How to quickly highlight text/image objects on a certain part of a page

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Hi,

Þann þri  8.sep 2015 11:50, skrifaði ale rimoldi:
> don't get me wrong. it's a good request. the feature should be in
> scribus.
> i'm just not convinced that left to right and right to left mouse
> movements are the best way to trigger it.
>
> it's a very clever way to trigger it. but it reminds me more of the old
> school tricks for saving a few bits in memory rather than of a modern
> DTP package.

AutoCAD still features these selection methods - if my memory doesn't 
betray me there were (in the 90s) also applications like CorelDraw using 
Ctrl+drag and Shift+drag to achieve this.
I really like the AutoCAD-way and often miss it from Inkscape...

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