[Users] double-clicking on displayed text?

[Keith Edmunds]

In your mail dated Thu, 17 Nov 2016 at 09:03:08, you said:

> > I can't answer for Olivier, but I do. Depends on the definition of
> > "often", but maybe a couple of times a week.  
> 
> That is surprising.

Never be surprised by how users use software (you've been doing this long
enough to know that!)

> > The bigger problem, IMO, is user expectation. Muscle memory "knows"
> > that double clicking on a word selects it,   
> 
> Muscle memory also knows that holding the button down and dragging
> also selects.

Yes, it does, but we're not talking about click and drag. We're talking
about user's expectations when they double click on a word. If a user
wants to select the whole word, it is much easier to put the mouse cursor
anywhere in the word and double click than the more precise positioning
that is needed to single click and drag.

> > and double clicking on a
> > word and dragging will select in word sized chunks. That's not the
> > case in Claws.  
> 
> I don't even know what you mean here.

Double click on a word, but hold the mouse down on the second click. Now
when you drag the mouse, the text is selected one full word at a time. I
use this _a lot_.
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