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

[Sven Axelsson]

Up to *and including* the comma ...
-- 
Sven Axelsson

2009/4/16 Scott Haneda <talklists at 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......
>
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