sanctimonius hypocrt's Journal: Mildly interesting

If I double-click in the space between two words in Firefox, X highlights both words. In an xterm and in Vim, it just highlights the space. In a properties dialog within Rythymbox, and in the Openoffice spreadsheet, whichever word is nearer the cursor gets highlighted.

Update: I've come to use this whenever I want two words in Firefox, which is pretty often. So now it's a feature.

FF Text selection bug

[tqft]

FF Text selection "bug"

there is at least one entry in bugzilla for this - and a long history

remember you can't click on bugzilla links from slashdot gotta copy & paste

Here are some samples

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137582 [mozilla.org]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188567 [mozilla.org]

there is a better more active one somewhere but I can't find it

I believe there is some "conflict" with the way double clicking works on linux vs other platforms and given that multiple workarounds exist it may never ge

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[Eric Smith]

Clicking on the links into Bugzilla seems to work fine for me (Firefox 2.0.0.10, Fedora 8/x86_64).

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[sanctimonius hypocrt]

Re: how to change mouse select behavior? [mail-archive.com]