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Double clicking selects a word, and triple-clicking selects the whole line. If I double- or triple-click-and-hold, I can drag the mouse to expand the selection
by peterjmag 5y ago
Double clicking selects a word, and triple-clicking selects the whole line. If I double- or triple-click-and-hold, I can drag the mouse to expand the selection word-wise or line-wise, not just character-wise. This works with the paragraphs of text in the body of this blog post, too.
I had no idea that you could end with a drag to expand your selection by word or by line like that. That's really cool. (The author's using Linux, but it works on macOS too.)
- reportgunner 5y agoWorks on my Win10 machine too.
- godot 5y agoThis thread just makes me think of the thankless job of native frontend developers working on Linux/macOS/Windows OSes that made these nuances and behaviors work exactly to a specific standard. Ok, maybe not thankless in the case of Mac and Windows since they probably got paid. :) But yeah, I imagine all the edge cases aren't easy to handle.