change the way double-clicking works re: selecting text ??

[djbeta]

Is there any way I can make it so that
a triple-click will select not a whole line of
text but rather, just the word I'm clicking
on as well as the word to the right of it?

*** so_triple_clicking_on_this also_selects_this but_not_this ***

[fryke]

I don't think so. The rule generally is character-word-line-paragraph. You can, however, double-click a word and then Shift-RightArrow until the next word is highlighted as well. Or simply double-click one word, hit Shift and click at the end of the second word.

[Sunnz]

Originally Posted by fryke

You can, however, double-click a word and then Shift-RightArrow until the next word is highlighted as well.

I have been wondering, this doesn't work on my Mac-Book, why?

[billbaloney]

You can also double-click and Option-Shift-[left or right arrow] to highlight by word.

Applications can override the default OS X behavior (see broken behavior in Microsoft Office, or augmented behavior in BBEdit).

Sunnz, which step in fryke's description doesn't work? Surely highlighting works.

[Sunnz]

Originally Posted by billbaloney

Sunnz, which step in fryke's description doesn't work? Surely highlighting works.

Oh, it works in text editors, in fact, it works in Firefox too!!! But it doesn't work in Safari.

What happens is double-click highlights a word, but pressing shift-{left|right}arrow key de-selects it!!!

[billbaloney]

That's true of all versions of Safari, I think, when you're highlighting displayed (HTML) text.

[Mikuro]

It doesn't work in Safari because the text is not editable. If it works in Firefox (I haven't tested it), it's because Firefox is completely nonstandard.

When double-clicking a word, if you hold the second click and drag, it'll select word by word instead of character by character. I find this very useful. So with a quick drag you could do just what you want. (This does NOT work in Firefox, because, again, Firefox is completely nonstandard.)

[Sunnz]

I have no ideas what kind of 'standard' you are on about, but if the text is select-able, so why not make it work with the keyboard as well as the mouse?