On the Manual page about this:  http://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Tracks_Menu:_Align_Tracks#align_end_to_end

At the bottom of that H2 section it states:
"Note that zoom level has changed to display the entire project, and that the original selection has been retained."

Indeed in the image above it the zoom level has indeed changed but the selction has been visually changes as I describe above.

One other oddity i Note with the use of Align commands:

If you get two tracks as at Step 1 and then make a small sliver of a time selection in both tracks - not the whole of either track- if you then use Align End-to-End the alignment takes pace as though the entirety of both tracks were selected,

I would have thought that we should be requiring full-track selections to effect alignments.

The Manual page http://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Tracks_Menu:_Align_Tracks certainly implies that, both in the text and in the images.   No mention there of partial selections working for alignments.

I'm not seeing this on Mac 10.11.4 with the 2.2.0 RC build of Oct 25.

The selection (both in time and among tracks) remains after any Align Tracks command.

Note that effects, as well as Copy and Cut, apply to the selected audio, whereas Mix and Render merely requires the *tracks* to be selected. 

Re comment 2 , perhaps the manual could be clearer, but what is required is that *tracks* be selected. You could have no time selection and the Align commands would still work. Perhaps the example in the manual could be clearer, or could have an expanded explanation.

(In reply to Peter Sampson from comment #0)
> We have inconsistent use of selection (or non-selection) following Align
> tracks.
> 
> It looks as though after an alignment the tracks other than the uppermost
> become de-selected - certainly from their visual appearance.
> 
> a) trying an effect certainly appears to confirm that as the effect only
> gets applied to the uppermost track the one that looks selected.
> 
> b) however  a Mix & Render would appear to show that the apparently visually
> de-selected tracks do still actually still form part of the selection as
> they get used for the mix and render.
> 
> 
> Now for a start this is inconsistent - but it also raises the question of
> why after the align do we apparently change the user's careful selection.  
> 
> Surely what was selected before the alignment should remain selected after
> the alignment.
> 
> 
> In fact its worse if the uppermost track of the two is the shorter one>  In
> this case at step 4 the uppermost track remains selected but the lower track
> also has a partial selection - one which extends to the length of the lower
> track it was before the alignment (Amplify confirms this).  This confirms my
> view that that which was selected before the alignment should remain
> selected after the alignment.
> 
> This is not a regression on 2.1.3

This is not a bug. As Bill has already pointed out, the align commands operate on selected tracks, not selected audio.

Steve agrees with Bill and David - he wrote to me offlist:

"You wrote that the selection in the image has changed.
Perhaps it's not expressed very well, but it looks to me like "the
selected time region" is indeed unchanged. The"selected audio" has
changed. which is inevitable because the audio has moved to different
places in the tracks.

I would also note that the "Align" commands are in the "Tracks" menu
because these commands apply to "tracks" . That's why the time
selection is unimportant for these commands - because they act on
"tracks" not on "selected audio".

In short, I'm unclear about what you think the bug is. I'm not sure
that there is a bug."



Having considered all your input I shall close this as not-a-bug (INVALID).


But what I think we need to do is make the Manual page a little clearer - but I cannot do that until after 2.2.0 is released as we are in Manual freeze right now