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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] double click selects a word
Date: Mon,  6 Apr 2009 07:31:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae5bf1814f482976b1e33569baf7a352@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00904060428v31e3492eu1b5a909c032b1e14@mail.gmail.com>

> is there any good reason for a double click (in rio, sam, acme, ...)
> to select a word  (probably) defined by sth. like
> /[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/
> and not sth. white-space delimited instead?
> Double clicking e.g. on 'text.txt' only selects 'text' or 'txt', while
> one usually wants the whole. The same with absolute paths like
> '/usr/ruda/lib/profile', etc. In linux a double-click usually
> highlights the whole and usually this is what I want.

acme is for programming.  the existing behavior is
much better for programming where strings are generally
delimited by ".

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-06 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06 11:28 Rudolf Sykora
2009-04-06 11:31 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-04-07  3:42   ` sqweek
2009-04-06 15:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-04-06 15:28   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-04-07 19:32 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-04-08  8:31 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-04-08 15:51 ` ron minnich
2009-04-08 18:07 Francisco J Ballesteros

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