Ctrl+A unexpected behaviour

[LZL0]

Describe the bug
Ctrl+A unexpected behaviour
I believe this behaviour to be unexpected, please correct me if I am wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jXVM5zH8Qg

Disclaimer: The first time it works, but after that it starts to act this way.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Click into a block.
2. Press Ctrl + A.
3. Gutenberg acts as expected, only the current paragraph is being selected.
4. Click into another block or exit the current one and click into it.
5. Press Ctrl + A again.
6. All the blocks are selected.
   If you reload the page on the first Ctrl+A command it would function as expected.

Gutenberg version 3.3
WordPress version 4.9.7

[LZL0]

Must be connected with Issue #8268

[designsimply]

I found a description of the expected behavior in #4600:

Focus an Editable. meta+a should select all contents. Press meta+a once more to select all blocks.

@iseulde or @jasmussen what is the expected behavior if you press meta+a then click on a different block and press meta+a again?

[jasmussen]

what is the expected behavior if you press meta+a then click on a different block and press meta+a again?

The expected behavior is this:

• Set focus in a paragraph, press meta+a to select all contents in that paragraph
• Only when all the text of that paragraph is selected, should a subsequent meta+a expand the selection to all blocks.

This also means that if you select all text in one paragraph, select a different paragraph, you've effectively "unset" the selection for the previous block, and meta+a should select all the text in the new block before expanding.

Noting that if you deselect all blocks and press meta+a, all blocks should be selected.

Noting that this works as expected for me in the current release version of the plugin in Chrome, so this could be a browser or operating system specific bug. See also #7678 and discussion here #4369 (comment)

[mtias]

Closing as works as expected. There are some incosistencies in browsers that are still being worked on.