Journal sanctimonius hypocrt's Journal: Mildly interesting 4
If I double-click in the space between two words in Firefox, X highlights both words. In an xterm and in Vim, it just highlights the space. In a properties dialog within Rythymbox, and in the Openoffice spreadsheet, whichever word is nearer the cursor gets highlighted.
Update: I've come to use this whenever I want two words in Firefox, which is pretty often. So now it's a feature.
FF Text selection bug (Score:1)
there is at least one entry in bugzilla for this - and a long history
remember you can't click on bugzilla links from slashdot gotta copy & paste
Here are some samples
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D137582 [mozilla.org]
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D188567 [mozilla.org]
there is a better more active one somewhere but I can't find it
I believe there is some "conflict" with the way double clicking works on linux vs other platforms and given that multiple workarounds exist it may never ge
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