Water: can't select multiple words with double-click

Elements Water
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Not too low priority, I hope. :grinning:

Double-click-and-hold, followed by dragging the mouse, is a fairly standard behaviour in Windows programs (even Notepad does it), normally referred to as “select by word”. It is in contrast with single-click-and-hold, followed by drag, which is “select by character”.

Both have their place - but I find “select by word” to be extremely useful when writing software.

I’m surprised you aren’t familiar with it, marc - perhaps “select by word” isn’t a thing in the Mac world? Also, it’s more important to people like me, who prefer mouse navigation than keyboard shortcut navigation.

Being able to double-click-and-hold anywhere in ‘Value’ and then drag to the right to select ‘.ToString’ as well is much, much faster than clicking precisely to the left of ‘V’ and dragging precisely to the right of ‘g’.

Incidentally, to make it work right, you need to consider the ‘.’ as a separate word, so as you drag to the right, the selection goes:

Value
Value.
Value.ToString

Honestly, marc - try it in Notepad++. You’ll be impressed!