From kde-usability Thu Mar 18 17:13:03 2004 From: Leo Savernik Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:13:03 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: standardizing modes of text selection Message-Id: <200403181813.05580.l.savernik () aon ! at> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=107963014816118 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag 18 März 2004 17:10 schrieb Luciano Montanaro: [...] > Why, sure. However, "Whole words" are usually considered separated > by whitespace. Not necessarily. There may be reasons to treat hyphenated words like foo-bar as two single words. > So www.foo.bar/baz would be considered a whole word by > the selection algorithm. Try that in konsole. Actually console only uses letters, plus a set of user configurable characters to be treated like letters. It's certainly easier to implement than to separate on every non-letter, and to make an exception for urls. > That is the behaviour I think > we should use. The current behaviour is almost, but not quite, correct. > If you happen to have a particularly firm hand (or if you are in a lucky > day) you can select the full url by double clicking it. But the smallest > movement moves the selection end to the pointer position, which means > having to drag the selection to the line end most of the times. Well, the movement problem would be fixed by my proposal :-) > [...] mfg Leo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAWdifj5jssenUYTsRAnRoAKCRvwekyNX4ydbMScvAg/qXZ13LVgCghBA8 QnT9HUiIxHguJLJoMiJy/pc= =tBnL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability