Issue 218 - Cut, copy & paste (selection) should work better with word boundaries
Summary: Cut, copy & paste (selection) should work better with word boundaries
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 609
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: falko.tesch
QA Contact: issues@www
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Reported: 2000-12-09 16:39 UTC by issues@www
Modified: 2003-12-06 14:52 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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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.