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PostIcon Posted on: Aug. 27 2001,14:47  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
why is it so gay. I want to be able to double click a word, whole ip address, or whole url, and have it highlighted without spaces on the end. I want to be able to manually highlight a group of words without it "intelligently" selecting the whole line. When I click one word and drag the mouse to the left, I want it to highlight stuff on the left, not everything else on the right. How the fuck did microsoft fuck this one up?
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PostIcon Posted on: Aug. 27 2001,15:54 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I agree, I can't stand it when It highlights words or numbers I don't want it to!

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PostIcon Posted on: Aug. 27 2001,16:13 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
It's fine for me, you just have to be careful with your mouse.

Now, in Linux, you can just select text, switch windows, and hit the middle button. Now THAT is how it should be done.

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the problem is that it won't let you just select characters one at a time. it likes to go by chunks or words. extremely annoying.
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PostIcon Posted on: Aug. 27 2001,21:18 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I've found that it's app-dependent. Most big MS apps do that, but smaller things like UltraEdit32 for text-editing don't do that.

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PostIcon Posted on: Aug. 27 2001,21:24 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
It's because many of their customers (the ones that pay for the products) are old folks with bad eyes and hand coordination. They know they want to select a word, but they don't have the dexterity to be on the exact pixel (which, I don't know how at 640x480). 99.99\% of the time, the idea is to select that whole word, not 75\% of it or something. So, it was a user based decision geared toward eliminating more confusion... a lesser of two evils, if you will.
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the hair trigger mouse movement only compounds the problem
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Oh yes, the torments of life...

Have an instance of notepad running..

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hear hear. X windows cut & paste owns j00
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Originally posted by mqa:
the hair trigger mouse movement only compounds the problem

Now you've lost me. Just change it.

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