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Bug 552460 - double-click-dragging should select whole word
double-click-dragging should select whole word
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201554
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: BugBuddyBugs
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Triage Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-16 07:18 UTC by Max Waterman
Modified: 2012-01-27 18:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Max Waterman 2008-09-16 07:18:32 UTC 
Double clicking on a word in an email correctly selects the word, but maintaining the pressed (ie not releasing) and dragging causes the selection to change from the whole word to just the position under the cursor. This behaviour is counter-intuitive - a double click selects a whole word, so double-click-dragging should also select only whole words, starting with the currently selected word.


Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
Gnome Release: 2.22.3 2008-07-09 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0
Comment 1 Akhil Laddha 2010-03-31 07:13:01 UTC 
When do you perform this operation ? 
Do you want to paste the word somewhere by drag and drop ?
Comment 2 Max Waterman 2010-04-01 01:23:58 UTC 
Well, I've long since given up on Evolution and moved back to Thunderbird; but let me guess...

I want to copy a sentence from an email. To do this, I expect to double click on the first sentence of a word and, holding the second click, drag the pointer over other words in the sentence until I've selected everything I want. I also expect the selection to increment in units of whole words, and not one character at a time.
Comment 3 Tobias Mueller 2010-05-19 11:43:06 UTC 
Hm. That behaviour would be consistent with Firefox and, say, Gedit. Can't test right now whether this still happens in Evolution-2.30.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2012-01-27 18:20:32 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 201554 ***