https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3059
--- Comment #6 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2008-11-14 07:57:15 PDT ---
With "Ctrl-M", you can only mark one packet at a time. I think the idea here
is that you can mark a large range of sequential packets with only a click or
two instead of many many Ctrl-M's. However, you may also want to mark other
packets that are not part of the large sequential range, so the "specify a
packet range" save option won't give you what you want in that case. Also,
being able to mark all displayed packets is nice, but it obviously means that
you have to first filter the packets and depending on which packets you want
marked, it might be very difficult/tedious/impossible to create a filter that
matches all of the packets you want to mark.
Anyway, to me this idea seems like it would be useful, although in addition to
the right-click context menu approach, I'd also advocate a "Ctrl-Shift-M" key
combination to accomplish the same thing without having to switch from keyboard
to mouse. The basic idea being that if you mark a packet with Ctrl-M, then
page up/down, select another packet and Ctrl-Shift-M, then all the packets
between the prior marked packet and the current packet get marked. And there
shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't repeat this process on a different
sequential range as well.
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