[Users] double-clicking on displayed text?

[Olivier Brunel]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:48:46 +0000
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:40:24 +0100
> Olivier Brunel <jjk at jjacky.com> wrote: 
> 
> > However, I'm afraid it sadly won't fully resolve things as then
> > double-clicking does nothing, i.e. still doesn't select the word.
> > I'm not sure whether this is intended or a bug, though I (too) wish
> > it would.  
> 
> Do you often find yourself needing to copy one word from a message?

Not one word no, but a group/sentence or more, yes. And as Keith
explained, a common way to do so is to double-click on a word, hold the
button down and drag to grow/change the selection word-by-word instead
of char-by-char.

This is quite common and supported in many applications (and even works
in Claws when not inside a quote, except when editing/in the composing
window ofc) and useful; And yes it happens regularly (for me at least).

That's why it would be nice IMHO if one could use another way (i.e.
other than dbl-click) to collapse/expand quotes (e.g. middle click), to
get the usual/expected behavior from double-click (& drag) otherwise,
as now even when disabling the dbl-click to collapse/expand quotes,
dbl-clicks are just ignored, so can't be used for selection purposes.

Cheers,