Smart text selection by word...
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Usually when we select text, we want to select by whole words, not just letters. So please make this more convenient by adding an option to enable "smart text selection by word". So that when we drag to select text, it auto detects and selects whole words, instead of just letters. This makes it much easier to select groups of whole words with a SINGLE-click-drag, which is especially convenient when selecting sentences or paragraphs. Currently, to do "smart text selection by word", it requires a DOUBLE-click-drag, which is inconvenient. When we enable "smart text selection by word", it should swap the two selection methods, so that you SINGLE-click-drag to select whole words, and DOUBLE-click-drag to select just letters.
[bug reported VB-57049]
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I didn't know the double-click selection tip xD Thanks.
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How would you then select only part of the word?
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@alkalin0
With a key modifier.But it must be an option, because I have word selection in other software as well.
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it will probably take ages for the vivaldi team to add this. for now, does anyone know of a good extension for this?
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It actually already works good enough. Double click, a whole word is selected, then keeping right click down move the mouse, a word at a time is being selected. But let's see how many votes this gets, so far almost nobody cares (3 votes after 1 year)
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@TsunamiZ said in Smart Text Selection by Word:
Currently, to do "smart text selection", it requires a DOUBLE-click-drag, which is inconvenient.
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updated first post
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@TsunamiZ said in Smart text selection by word...:
Usually when we select text, we want to select by whole words, not just letters
Yes, but sometimes we want to select only part of a word. This feature request breaks that for a negligible benefit of single-click instead of double-click.
It would also break triple-click to select paragraphs.
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@TsunamiZ said in Smart text selection by word...:
When we enable "smart text selection by word", it should swap the two selection methods, so that you SINGLE-click-drag to select whole words, and DOUBLE-click-drag to select just letters.
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@Pesala Nothing breaks if it's added as an option, which Tsunami suggestion in the OP:
@TsunamiZ said in Smart text selection by word...:
make this more convenient by adding an option to enable "smart text selection by word"
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@Pesala said in Smart text selection by word...:
It would also break triple-click to select paragraphs.
no it won't. triple-click to select paragraphs doesn't involve a combination with dragging--it is in a different category.