Issue 218

Summary:	Cut, copy & paste (selection) should work better with word boundaries
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	issues@www <issues>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	falko.tesch
Status:	CLOSED WONT_FIX	QA Contact:	issues@www <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	609
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description issues@www 2000-12-09 16:39:59 UTC

One of the few things that Microsoft has done right in their office is that
selecting text by painting with the mouse selects by default on word edges.
This is a feature I'd very much like to see in sw and also all other components
that use text.

Comment 1 issues@www 2000-12-09 16:47:09 UTC

Oops, that slipped to commit a bit too fast. Some more info:
it should work by defaulting to word boundaries on click&drag, but
switching to characters if the user jiggles the mouse or moves slowly or
somehow like that expresses the desire to select to the character.

Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2000-12-11 14:21:52 UTC

RFEs are handled by Falko Tesch. -> Reassigned...

Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2000-12-19 16:04:25 UTC

I hope this time the issue gets reassigned...

Comment 4 falko.tesch 2001-02-20 10:32:09 UTC

When double-clicking while selecting you get exactly the desired feature. Thus 
no changes will be made. Often people rather have a lot of problems fiddling 
around with marking only parts of words.

Comment 5 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 18:08:51 UTC

As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.

Comment 6 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 18:16:42 UTC

As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.