but it really is selected.
This is trigged by the fix of bug 97075, specifically... commit 16c7f8916661df24f4681ec82f6bd4d7ad85d141 Date: Tue Jan 12 16:36:49 2016 +0000 tdf#97075 - don't render sdr overlays before we paint.
Created attachment 127437 [details] sample document
Curious indeed; Andras was looking at a set of selection issues recently, that may be related - although bisecting to there is unlikely to be related ... any thoughts Andras ?
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=38a61ddaf63768ebe19c92d561eac6f50d67ded7 Resolves: tdf#102293 triple click results in visually unselected word It will be available in 5.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
This'll do for now I guess unless a better idea shows up
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=970750df0ddf272f5b22555834e579d56313e579&h=libreoffice-5-2 Resolves: tdf#102293 triple click results in visually unselected word It will be available in 5.2.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.