[TxMt] Re: Double-click then drag is too "greedy"

-- Sven Axelsson 2009/4/16 Scott Haneda talklists@newgeo.com > I am not seeing this at all. I just drag somewhere in the before the > comma, and all is good. Are you dragging outside the comma? > > Small video to show it in action: > http://is.gd/sJZM > > On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Dan Wood wrote: > > > Not sure if this is a bug or feature. I've found that the text > > selection behavior upon double-clicking, then dragging, is way too > > "greedy" of characters. Is this something that can be fixed, or > > overrridden? > > > > > > For instance, let's say you double click on the 'doQueryParams' in > > this snippet of PHP: > > > > doQueryParams($query, array() ); > > > > .... then drag to the right. Let's say that I want to select up to > > and including the comma after "$query". Well, I can't - the > > selection jumps to the end of "array". > > > > > > Other editors like SubEthaEdit or TextEdit do what I would expect -- > > the non-alpha characters are selected individually, so I can select > > the comma, the space, and then if I continue on it will select the > > whole word 'array', then each parenthesis, etc. > > > > Is it just me that's driven absolutely mad by this? It really slows > > me down...... >