On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 01:00 AM, Dan Bron wrote:
> Chris Burke wrote:
>>  Right double-click won't work, but I instead made it 
>>  so that you need to hold down Ctrl (or Shift) for the 
>>  double-click to load Find in Files, otherwise the word 
>>  is selected as usual.
> 
> I suggest that left-doubleclick with no metakey modifier means "highlight the 
> word", as you've describe here, and left-SINGLEclick
> modified with CTRL means "find in files", but left-SINGLEclick modified with 
> SHIFT means "edit 'selectedword'".  
> 
> That is, the metakey modifiers apply to single-clicking, not double-clicking, 
> and that ctrl- and shift- have different meanings.
> This is more consonant with current Windows conventions.  Also, "edit" is a 
> nice productivity tool, and SHIFT-leftclick to edit a
> definition will be familiar with Dyalog users.

Good idea, thanks. The Ctrl key is defined as suggested. For Shift, it
is defined as search word assigned - the problem is that we don't know
exactly where a definition is sourced, since there could be several
such. It could be improved so that if there is only one hit, go to it.
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