From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:42:16 +0800 Message-ID: <140e7ec30904062042u392238b4u55e481acecd85bd6@mail.gmail.com> From: sqweek To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] double click selects a word Topicbox-Message-UUID: d3bbe288-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/4/6 erik quanstrom : >> is there any good reason for a double click (in rio, sam, acme, ...) >> to select a word =C2=A0(probably) defined by sth. like >> /[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/ >> and not sth. white-space delimited instead? > > acme is for programming. =C2=A0the existing behavior is > much better for programming where strings are generally > delimited by ". rxvt-unicode has an option where you can have the selection grow on subsequent clicks. ie, double click selects a word, another click widens the selection to a whitespace seperated token, another click widens the selection to the whole line, then sentence/paragraph/etc/etc. I only ever used it for 5 minutes in between the feature being introduced and me working out how to turn it off, but it may be a way to get the best of both worlds, if awkwardly. -sqweek