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Bug 388099 - Double click on mixed alphanumeric words is inconsistent
Double click on mixed alphanumeric words is inconsistent
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 111503
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTextView
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-20 23:10 UTC by Chardon Bertrand
Modified: 2007-10-18 13:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Chardon Bertrand 2006-12-20 23:10:38 UTC 
Usual behavior in all Gnome applications is to be able to copy entire words in the clipboard by double clicking them. This behavior is implemented in Tomboy, but doesn't work with passwords. Example : ff34eg cannot be copied by double click.

Other information:
Comment 1 Boyd Timothy 2007-02-01 22:35:04 UTC 
I'm not sure I understand what the problem is.  It seems to me like gedit, for example behaves exactly the same way as Tomboy on the text "ff34eg".  Could you please include more detail?
Comment 2 Chardon Bertrand 2007-02-01 22:46:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not sure I understand what the problem is.  It seems to me like gedit, for
> example behaves exactly the same way as Tomboy on the text "ff34eg".  Could you
> please include more detail?
> 

In fact I've checked again and apparently it's a normal behaviour for all the GTK-based Gnome applications, so my bad. Though it seems to work fine in Gnome Terminal.
Comment 3 Boyd Timothy 2007-02-02 17:29:08 UTC 
There is inconsistency between GtkTextView, GtkEntry and other text entry widgets with double-click behavior.  Gnome Terminal allows you to double click a mixed alphanumeric word (aabb33ddee) and it will highlight the entire word.  The gtk+ widgets only highlight the partial word.
Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2007-10-18 13:11:06 UTC 
Going to mark this as a dup of 111503 which is about customizing the behavior.
If you really thing that ff34eg should be a word by default, then that's a Pango
issue, not a GTK+ issue, since GTK+ counts on Pango to tell it what the 
words are. (Remember, not all languages are written with spaces, so simple
algorithms like "look for spaces" may not work out.)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111503 ***