Bug 145352 - Make lines easier to select
Summary: Make lines easier to select
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 132056
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2021-10-27 19:49 UTC by Adriano
Modified: 2021-11-08 09:28 UTC (History)
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Random line selection in WPS Office (29.04 KB, image/png)
2021-10-27 19:49 UTC, Adriano
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Description Adriano 2021-10-27 19:49:55 UTC
Created attachment 175963 [details]
Random line selection in WPS Office

There is a nice little feature in other editors (Microsoft Word, WPS, SoftMaker) that allows the user to select an entire line with a single click.

By moving the mouse in front of the line but outside of the printing area, the mouse cursor changes to an arrow that points to the right. Then, a single click selects the entire line.

Also, after selecting one line, other random lines (not necessarily consecutive) can be selected by using Ctrl-click (screenshot from WPS Office attached).
And after selecting one line, the selection can be extended to consecutive lines with Shift-click.

This is a very useful feature. Please implement this in Writer.

I am not attaching a picture because I cannot capture the mouse cursor in a screenshot in Windows.
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2021-11-08 09:28:33 UTC
Same request has been rejected recently as the usefulness is marginal. Use the keyboard with pos1 and shift+end to select the whole line (or draw the mouse cursor down at the left margin, admittedly with some precision required).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 132056 ***