I was quite surprised by reading your subtle description since honestly, I never got into those details in everyday usage.
I'm here on Openstep and I can confirm the MacOSX behaviour:
Simple/Double/Triple click on text. Then extend by just shift clicking. Which text is selected by this operation depends on your click frequency in the first place. For example, if you double click, shift clicking extends on word boundaries.
Best wishes,
Stefan
Nicola Pero wrote:
> Hi - I am a bit lost with some minor things in the text code.
>
> Can someone help me please ?
>
> I think the following things are right:
>
> x the user simple clicks on the text
> <insertion point is moved to where he clicked>
>
> x the user double clicks on the text
> <selected word under mouse>
>
> x the user triple clicks on the text
> <selected paragraph under mouse>
>
> x the user simple clicks then drags.
> <selection changes as he drags, by characters>
>
> x the user double clicks then drags.
> <selection changes as he drags, by words>
>
> x the user triple clicks then drags.
> <selection changes as he drags, by paragraphs>
>
> But I'm lost when it comes to more complex cases. The macos doc says:
>
> ``For example, if the user selects a word by double-clicking, the
> selection granularity is set to NSSelectByWord. Subsequent shift-clicks
> then extend the selection by words.''
>
> I don't understand exactly this description and in general I have no idea
> how shift-clicking is supposed to work. And - more importantly ` - how
> did this stuff work on the real nextstep ?
>
> I thought that shift-clicking in general should extend the current
> selection, so I guess that you would have to double-click a word to have
> the word selected, then press shift, then double click while keeping shift
> pressed on a near word to extend the selection to include the new word as
> well - rather than resetting the selection to only include the new word.
> Is this correct ?
>
> But then does the macosx doc say that if you double click, then press
> shift, then simply click on a near word while keeping shift pressed, the
> selection is extended by word even if you are doing now a simple click ?
>
>
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