<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED INVALID - Writer Does Not Select Words Properly for Editing with MacOS norms" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109996#c5">Comment # 5</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED INVALID - Writer Does Not Select Words Properly for Editing with MacOS norms" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109996">bug 109996</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:electric@triad.rr.com" title="Sarvasri <electric@triad.rr.com>"> Sarvasri</a> <pre>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.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>