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Multi-click selection granularity #6511
Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
The current multi-click selection expansion only has two steps.
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double-click: selects a "word" between 2 delimiters (don't have to be the same, e.g.
,and -
triple-click: selects the entire line
I find myself rarely needing the entire line, but often need a path or a filename usually separated by spaces.
I would propose the following as better UX without going too granular.
- double-click: selects a "word" between 2 same delimiters
- triple-click: selects an entire string separated by spaces
- 4-click: entire line
Reacted by Zdenek, Cathal Mooney, Ben, Chris Featherstone, emericcolombe and Igal Serban
Activity
DHowett commentedon Jun 26, 2020
You know, I don't hate this as much as I thought I would. Perhaps we do need some different mechanics.
I'm inclined to call this extensible and link it up to #4000.
andrzejnovak commentedon Jun 28, 2020
Yup, would be fine as a config/extension.
benmwatson commentedon Jul 28, 2020
I would love to have the triple-click behave as you say. I was about to file an issue for this as well. One interesting quirk with the full-line selection and copying. If I copy and paste a full line, all spaces after the last text are being discarded. But spaces before the text are being preserved. It's as if they're calling TrimRight(), but not TrimLeft().
I could almost be happy if they could just trim those left spaces, but I'd love to see more deliberate behavior as you describe above.