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Bug 580495 - double click selection on spaces does not only select spaces
double click selection on spaces does not only select spaces
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 354587
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTextView
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 326921 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-27 19:38 UTC by bzb.dev001
Modified: 2014-12-17 11:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description bzb.dev001 2009-04-27 19:38:29 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When presented with the following text "...       abcde".  Double-clicking on the space would result in the selection of the spaces and the "...".
The expected operation should have been that only spaces are highlighted.

Steps to reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Paolo Borelli 2009-05-08 21:53:04 UTC 
this is done in gtktextview itself: it uses pango definition of words to go back to the end of the previous word, hence it includes punctuation.
Comment 2 Sébastien Wilmet 2014-07-20 16:48:48 UTC 
*** Bug 326921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Sébastien Wilmet 2014-12-17 11:41:02 UTC 
This will be fixed in GtkSourceView, thanks to the extend-selection signal: see bug #111503.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354587 ***