OT - minor windows question

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 February 14th, 2004, 12:41 AM

yep. i take it you can't turn it off?

Atrocities · #2 February 14th, 2004, 01:45 AM

I don't believe you can, but then again, email microsoft and ask them.

Will · #3 February 14th, 2004, 02:48 AM

Go to View / Options;
Select Options tag;
Uncheck the "Automatic word selection" box.

And I find it annoying too. If I want to select an entire word, I'll select the entire word damnit, I don't want my software to be designed with the assumption that I always want to select everything (especially annoying with URLs).

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 February 14th, 2004, 04:50 AM

thanks.

Cipher7071 · #5 February 14th, 2004, 04:39 PM

They're right. I usually deal with it by highlighting from right to left like someone else already said. If you think that sucks, try picking out a single letter in the middle of a word, especially a small one (not that there isn't an easier way).

How do I say this...? I think it happens because the start of a line (or word) is very close pixelwise to the start of the first letter, and it's hard to position the mouse pointer exactly where you want it.

And no, you can't turn it off.

[ February 14, 2004, 14:42: Message edited by: Cipher7071 ]

Cipher7071 · #6 February 14th, 2004, 04:48 PM

Hmmm...that was clear as mud.

The main reason it happens is that at design time some dufus decided that nobody should want to select just some part of a word for editing. So it got coded to grab for the entire word, or in some mouse positions, two words, or phrase.