[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 109996] Writer Does Not Select Words Properly for Editing with MacOS norms

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109996

--- Comment #5 from Sarvasri <electric at triad.rr.com> ---
This is really strange.
I make a LOT of notes in TextEdit and Apple Notes. I do some initial editing
there then copy sections into my draft documents in LibreOffice or elsewhere.
These two apps do word selection if you start with double clicking a word. So
apparently, Apple has two standards.

For quick editing, we should be able to double click a word to select a string
of works. Or click within a word to select a string of characters.

So two apps, text edit and notes work this way. Sigil also works this way.

Perhaps someone could check with Apple and see if there is a standard or if the
app could set a preference for how we WANT selections to work.

This would be an ideal solution to let people work the hard way by having to
make precise selection for groups of words or allow word selection by double
clicking the first word and quickly clicking anywhere within a word to select
the whole word string.

Since apps work BOTH ways, it makes sense to give the user the option to set
the program to work the way they prefer. Can it be programmed as a preference
with the default to be like the existing word processors work or for more rapid
editing allow word selection when the selection begins with a double click.

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