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Mouse double click to select word, triple click to select line #12500

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peterjc opened this issue Jan 11, 2025 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #12514
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Mouse double click to select word, triple click to select line #12500

peterjc opened this issue Jan 11, 2025 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #12514
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peterjc commented Jan 11, 2025

It is expected on macOS and Windows that double click will select a word, and triple click selects more (seems to be context dependent, but typically a whole line). See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2575758/conventions-for-the-behavior-of-double-or-triple-click-to-select-text-features which includes links to Apple and Microsoft guidance.

It would be nice if the helix mouse support could do the same. See https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/README.md for another terminal editor which offers this, they claim:

Extremely good mouse support.

This means mouse dragging to create a selection, double click to select by word, and triple click to select by line.

(I'm unsure that mouse dragging would be considered suitable for helix, but selection seems relevant to me at least.)

Testing helix 25.1 on macOS and Linux (via ssh from macOS), double and triple click appear to have no effect. This is working in micro 2.0.14 though.
@peterjc peterjc added the C-enhancement Category: Improvements label Jan 11, 2025
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nik-rev commented Jan 12, 2025

This seems to be dependent on the terminal emulator. I'm using Wezterm. Double click selects a word, triple click selects the whole line just as you said

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Duplicate of #10208

@the-mikedavis the-mikedavis closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jan 12, 2025
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peterjc commented Jan 12, 2025 •
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Apologies, I guess I only searched the issues and not discussions. Thanks @the-mikedavis 👍

@nik-rev I have the same from Ghostty, for example at the shell - double click selects a word, triple click selects the whole line. However within helix nothing happens, but more to the point I want a helix selection that I can then act on (eg d to delete). This is the same point as #10208 (comment)

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