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Bug 165527

Summary:	Double click and drag
Product:	editor	Reporter:	voodoomagic <voodoomagic>
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	issues@editor <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	oxley
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description voodoomagic 2009-05-19 19:19:52 UTC

Would it be possible to implement the double click and drag function that is common to many other editors?

This features allows you to select text by "words" rather than by letters. This feature would be very beneficial and
increase productivity, lessen the tedious task of selecting text, and bring the editors UI quality closer to that of
Visual Studio.

Please contact me if more information is needed.

Comment 1 oxley 2009-05-20 08:30:35 UTC

It's a minor thing but is the everyday use feature I miss the most from Visual Studio.

Comment 2 Vitezslav Stejskal 2009-05-20 12:29:05 UTC

Maybe a duplicate of issue #154505?

Comment 3 voodoomagic 2009-05-20 13:46:58 UTC

It would appear to be in the same category... that issue describes the word selection as occuring on mouse up. So if 
word selection is done on the second click : down, then it would naturally follow that draggable word selection would be 
implemented.

hopefully we can generate enough hype about this to get it implemented into 7.0

this feature again would really make this IDE comparable to Visual studio. I use netbeans for php and rails development 
(and whenever i need some sort of tool, java), which makes it the ide of choice for 3 / 4 of the platforms i am most 
commonly using (4 obviously being .net/c#).

is this feature supposed to be implemented in 7.0?

Comment 4 joachim_n 2009-08-08 16:58:43 UTC


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 154505 ***