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

[Scott Haneda]

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......
>

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