Multi-click selection granularity

[andrzejnovak]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

The current multi-click selection expansion only has two steps.

• double-click: selects a "word" between 2 delimiters (don't have to be the same, e.g. , and so when clicking on a filename, you don't get the extension)

• triple-click: selects the entire line

I find myself rarely needing the entire line, but often need a path or a filename usually separated by spaces.

I would propose the following as better UX without going too granular.

• double-click: selects a "word" between 2 same delimiters
• triple-click: selects an entire string separated by spaces
• 4-click: entire line

[DHowett]

You know, I don't hate this as much as I thought I would. Perhaps we do need some different mechanics.

I'm inclined to call this extensible and link it up to #4000.

[andrzejnovak]

Yup, would be fine as a config/extension.

[benmwatson]

I would love to have the triple-click behave as you say. I was about to file an issue for this as well. One interesting quirk with the full-line selection and copying. If I copy and paste a full line, all spaces after the last text are being discarded. But spaces before the text are being preserved. It's as if they're calling TrimRight(), but not TrimLeft().

I could almost be happy if they could just trim those left spaces, but I'd love to see more deliberate behavior as you describe above.