Sommer PanageI was today years old when I learned that (on macOS) single-click-and-drag will use character granularity for selection whereas DOUBLE-click-and-drag will use word granularity for selection!
David Smith@sommer I have literally worked on parts of AppKit's text system and did not know this 😂 neat!
overstrike@Catfish_Man @sommer also try triple-click
@overstrike that one I knew!
@overstrike @sommer oh wait, I knew triple click but didn't know triple click and drag. Neat!
✾, chief troublemaker@Catfish_Man @overstrike @sommer ctrl-return in Sonoma remains my favorite littlest feature this year.
James Atkinson@jimmyjamesuk @Catfish_Man @overstrike @sommer Opens the context menu for the current selection or insertion point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKYDogUICg
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@Catfish_Man @overstrike same - I'd been doing lots of clicks but never tried adding DRAGS
Greg Parker@Catfish_Man @sommer Never mind AppKit, single/double/triple-click-drag goes back to 1984 or close to it.
Tim@gparker @Catfish_Man @sommer the double-click version works all the way back to System 1.0: https://infinitemac.org/1984/System%201.0
Tanner B 🆓🇵🇸@Catfish_Man @sommer Genuinely curious, are y'all using trackpads 24/7? I don't know how else to explain this
Saagar Jha@saagar @Catfish_Man @sommer Maybe if the only mouse you've ever used is the Magic Mouse…
I think trackpad users being completely unaware of this interaction is proof of that. Rapid clicking and dragging is not a desirable interaction with a trackpad. Hell dragging with a trackpad at all kinda sucks
@objc I've used a wide variety of mice ranging from well-reviewed gaming mice to specialized ergonomic mice. I'm still very happy with my current setup.
@Catfish_Man Hey to each their own! @saagar started it 😜 I'm not trying to hate on anyone's preferred setup
… except Magic Mouse users
Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips@saagar @sommer @Catfish_Man @objc perhaps you have not experienced the true joy of flicking the logitech mx master scroll wheel and letting its momentum carry you like 10000 pixels down the content
@shadowfacts @sommer @Catfish_Man @objc I’ve done this but there is more physicality to doing it with a trackpad flick
Joachim@sommer did you also find triple-click for lines? :)
And if you don’t know yet, the equivalents for arrow navigation (and selection) are
- arrow only: character
- hold option: word
- hold cmd: start/end of line (or document, if up/down)
dxzdb@cocoafrog @sommer I didn’t know about triple click and the ⌥(option) arrow is very useful as is the ⌘(CMD) arrow. Thanks!
I like ⌥ delete for removing whole words at a time. And now that I've learned about ⌘ it's no surprise that ⌘ delete chops out one line at a time. (dd in vi/vim 🤓)
Emmanuel Crouvisier@sommer Dammit I had no idea, either.
Adrian Eves@sommer omg we're TIL twins
Frederik Riedel 🐻❄️@sommer wow 🤯 I just tried on iOS, I think it works as well!
Craig Hockenberry@sommer Holy cow!
Pierre@sommer you should try triple-click ... paragraph
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Pascal@sommer I’ve known this for years but I was today years old when I first heard someone describe this behavior so succinctly!
Greg Gardner@gregggreg @sommer @frederik the X Window System borrowed double-click-and-drag from the original 1984 Macintosh. Try it on System 1.0 here: https://infinitemac.org/1984/System%201.0
Claudius@sommer
Same on windows. And in some applications there's also paragraph level after three clicks
@StefanStuckmann
Same on windows. And in some applications there's also paragraph level after three clicks
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Jim Rea@sommer Actually MacOS did this also. I think even the original Mac 128k did it.