- #DOUBLE UNDERLINE WORD FOR MAC UPDATE#
- #DOUBLE UNDERLINE WORD FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
- #DOUBLE UNDERLINE WORD FOR MAC WINDOWS#
With Logitech, the second click is released even if you don't release the mouse button, so you can't drag. Most extra-buttoned mice come with a double-click macro that can be assigned to a button, but so far only Microsoft mice seem to get it right and allow the double-click+drag capability. You'll notice that this puts the selection behavior into word-select mode, which is very handy in programming and for those of us who have disabled "select entire word" in our MS Word and Outlook settings (by default we select single characters, but double-click+drag selects entire words). Try this manually: double-click on the first word in a sentence, but do not release the second click, then drag your mouse over subsequent words. I voted for the ticket, but I'm not going to hold my breath at this point for it to be addressed soon!Īs a side comment, I'm frustrated with how different brands of mice implement double-click macros differently.
#DOUBLE UNDERLINE WORD FOR MAC WINDOWS#
As discussed in that comments on that ticket, though, it isn't clear that special-case logic should be added for the underscore character, since behavior from application to application even on a single platform is inconsistent (as I noted above for Windows applications).
#DOUBLE UNDERLINE WORD FOR MAC UPDATE#
Update : There is an existing, long-standing (March 2003) Mozilla (Firefox) Bugzilla ticket for this: Bug 196175 - underscore should be part of word, not punctuation.
Such cases might include an application's spell check logic another case might be the handling of navigating through a document a word at a time via the Ctrl+LeftArrow and Ctrl+RightArrow shortcut keys.Ī few applications that get this behavior "right" (double-click selects an entire word with an underscore not all other punctuation characters are specially handled this way):Ī few applications that don't get the double-click behavior "right" (double-click selects only the portion of the clicked word up to the underscore character):ĭevelopers of this latter set of applications: If you agree, please go forth and effect positive change! :-) Developers of new applications, please keep this issue in mind when coding up the mouse click UI behavior for your new app. It still might make sense for underscore characters to be treated as word separator characters in some other cases.
The underscore should not be treated as a word separator character for the purposes of an application's logic that selects a word on a double-click. Since typical (non-developer) users are seldom or never going to be working with documents with words that include underscore characters (and therefore aren't affected one way or another by what the behavior is), I think that the default behavior across all applications should be to select the entire word when a word including an underscore character is double-clicked. Firefox 3 works this way (again, shown after a double-click on "max"): The problem is that in some applications, double-clicking a word containing an underscore results in just the clicked portion of the word becoming selected the underscore gets treated as a word separator character (like a space character would be treated). (For example, taking the example of the max_records identifier, if I double-click the word, it's far more common that what I'm trying to do is select and copy "max_records" for pasting elsewhere, rather than just "max" or just "records".) The text editor Notepad2 works this way (shown here after a double-click on the word "max"): This is the behavior I want, since it lets me easily cut or copy the entire identifier elsewhere. In some applications, double-clicking on any portion of a word containing an underscore results in the entire word being selected.
#DOUBLE UNDERLINE WORD FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
Such words are frequently used by software developers for naming such things as variables and database fields examples are max_records and customer_id. I've recently noticed that not all applications handle double-click-selection of words that contain an underscore character (the character "_" also called "underbar") in the same way.
(If you've never used double-click in this way before, go ahead and give it a try on one of the words in this post, right here in your web browser.) Double-clicking a word in this manner is handy for quickly selecting a word in order to copy-and-paste or cut-and-paste it elsewhere, or to just delete the word. In just about all modern text-reading and text-writing applications, a double-left-click with the mouse on a word in the text causes that word to become selected.
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