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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  6 Apr 2009 07:31:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] double click selects a word
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> 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