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Select Text Selects Other Stuff
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Select Text Selects Other Stuff
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:24 am
Posted by Grover
(2 messages posted)
You know how when you try to select some text in so many windows-based apps and by
default the selection includes stuff like the following space or various code characters
like " or < or all kinds of other stuff that you don't intend to get?
This drives me nuts.
Is there any way to shut this stupid "Smart" behaviour off system-wide? Like so many
context-sensitive time-saving innovations this just ends up being a massive waste
of time. Any idea how to SWIW: Select What I Want?
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re: Select Text Selects Other Stuff
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:50 am
Posted by Ricer46
(19573 messages posted)
Outside of MSOffice, what other products do that? It's easy enough to change in MSOffice.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:24 am, Grover wrote:
>You know how when you try to select some text in so many windows-based apps and
by
>default the selection includes stuff like the following space or various code characters
>like " or < or all kinds of other stuff that you don't intend to get?
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>This drives me nuts.
>
>Is there any way to shut this stupid "Smart" behaviour off system-wide? Like so
many
>context-sensitive time-saving innovations this just ends up being a massive waste
>of time. Any idea how to SWIW: Select What I Want?
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re: Select Text Selects Other Stuff
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 9:51 am
Posted by Grover
(2 messages posted)
It's easier to enumerate the apps which don't exhibit this behaviour. Dreamweaver,
in code view at least, doesn't. Notetab light doesn't. Just about anything by MS
does including this browser, IE6. I was struggling to edit some code online in Joomla
with IE6 when I was frustrated enough to go look for a solution. That's what prompted
this post.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:50 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>Outside of MSOffice, what other products do that? It's easy enough to change in
MSOffice.
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