On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Daniel Israel wrote:
This may have been covered before... In most of my OS X apps, when
I am working with large amounts of text, selecting the end or
beginning of a line often behave oddly.
For example, in dreamweaver, if I want to select to the end of the
line and include the EOL, it often selects the first character
(often a tab) on the next line. Or, when I click on the very
beginning of a line (like when I want to paste something there) it
does the same. Is this a setting, or just a bug? (The Windows
version of Dreamweaver doesn't do this.... and it's not just
Dreamweaver, but many applications...)
It's mainly kind of annoying more than anything, but just wondering
if anybody had found some sort of fix/workaround for this?
Usually, this is due to minor mousing aberrations. If you twitch your
mouse even slightly up or down when doing this kind of selection, you
will often get more than you bargained for. Also, sweeping the mouse
leftwards past the beginning of line or rightwards past end of line
can lead to the same behavior. I have found that some applications
seem to be touchier than others in this regard and I end up doing more
shift-clicking than usual to re-establish the desired boundary.
(It's not as bad as infernal Microsoft Office select whole words
(and whitespace) when I'm trying to select only a small part of the
word)
Yes, Microsoft seems to think this is some kind of feature. I
discovered that one can defeat this behavior by holding down the
option or command key (I forget which it is, because I don't use Word
all that often) as you are selecting, causing the selection range to
stop jumping and work just like it does in every other Mac application.
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