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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: standardizing modes of text selection
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2004-03-18 17:13:03
Message-ID: 200403181813.05580.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Donnerstag 18 März 2004 17:10 schrieb Luciano Montanaro:
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> 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
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