Bug 164987 - Double click+drag selects only one word (editeng)
Summary: Double click+drag selects only one word (editeng)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 72147
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2025-02-01 19:53 UTC by Kuba Orlik
Modified: 2025-10-24 17:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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screencast of the issue in Impress (212.59 KB, video/mp4)
2025-02-01 19:53 UTC, Kuba Orlik 		Details
screencast of the gesture working properly in Writer (221.13 KB, video/mp4)
2025-02-01 19:53 UTC, Kuba Orlik 		Details
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Description Kuba Orlik 2025-02-01 19:53:21 UTC 
Created attachment 198920 [details]
screencast of the issue in Impress

In most GUI applications (including LibreOffice Writer) that deal with text selection and editing, you can perform a "double click and drag" gesture to select text word by word instead of letter by letter.

The first click is short, the other that immediately follows is longer and you move the mouse before you release the mouse button.

In Impress, this gesture selects only the one first word and doesn't select words that follow the drag gesture
Comment 1 Kuba Orlik 2025-02-01 19:53:56 UTC 
Created attachment 198921 [details]
screencast of the gesture working properly in Writer
Comment 2 LeroyG 2025-02-02 13:11:07 UTC 
Reproducible with:
Version: 24.2.7.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ee3885777aa7032db5a9b65deec9457448a91162
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: es-MX (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2025-10-24 17:09:10 UTC 
Already in oldest of linux-43all repo. You can also try a text box in Writer to see it. The editeng text input mode lacks support for this. Let's maybe set to enhancement.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2025-10-24 17:10:01 UTC 
Ah, should have searched for existing reports first.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 72147 ***