Bug 155942 - EditEngine: Allow extending selection started by double-clicking to select a whole word
Summary: EditEngine: Allow extending selection started by double-clicking to select a ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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7.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2023-06-20 05:46 UTC by Vara La Fey
Modified: 2023-06-20 06:33 UTC (History)
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Description Vara La Fey 2023-06-20 05:46:42 UTC
Description:
Calc does not support double-click dragging to select text a whole word at a time. This is an important feature and I think every single Windows and Mac app in the last 30 years, including Windows and Mac OSes, have supported it.

Writer supports it beautifully, so you guys already know it's important. But....

Impress does not support it (I don't care, as I don't use presentation ware at all);
Draw also does not;
Math doesn't, near as I can tell (never opened it until now);
Base is UNKNOWN; it needs Java to create a new database, and I'm not installing that crap. The Base app is literally unusable for anything beyond basic tables & queries even on a local machine. I spent years making my living building .mdbs in MS Access, so I'm not exactly new to relational db concepts.

PLEASE add double-click drag to select text. I still find it hard to believe that you don't.

Thanks.

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Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2023-06-20 06:31:36 UTC
Yes.

EditEngine-based objects (including text boxes in Writer) don't allow to extend selection started by double-click to select a whole word, when the mouse (with the left button kept pressed) is moved to select more words.