I 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!
@sommer I have literally worked on parts of AppKit's text system and did not know this 😂 neat!
@Catfish_Man @sommer Never mind AppKit, single/double/triple-click-drag goes back to 1984 or close to it.
@gparker @Catfish_Man @sommer the double-click version works all the way back to System 1.0: https://infinitemac.org/1984/System%201.0
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