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8. June 2010, 16:02:32

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Word by word selection

Text selection in Opera is letter by letter. Most browsers and editors allow word by word selection, such as IE annd Firefox.

Letter by letter selection is not usable at all. Please consider adding "word by word selection" feature to the new version.

8. June 2010, 16:18:09

Pesala

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Double-click or drag to select the first word — shift click to select the full range of words.

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8. June 2010, 16:29:37

benryves

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If they did add this feature, I'd hope it was optional. Word by word selection is unusable, I find, as it often selects extra stuff I didn't want it to (IE, for example, automatically selects whitespace after words, which is a pain when copying and pasting passwords and the like from emails).

2. July 2010, 18:19:27

Isoik

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I support. I think text selection in Opera is very disturbing. It's harder to select a paragraph in Opera than in all other browsers. Additionally, I also think that they should change the cursor to the text cursor when hover over text and speed up cursor switching as it sometimes takes a while for the cursor to switch to a hand when hovering over a hyperlink.

2. July 2010, 18:51:36

Hades32

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Actually Opera is the easiest: Double click: a word. triple click: a sentence. quad-click: a paragraph.
But beware that there currently is a bug so that you have to click: 2,4 and 6 times.

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2. July 2010, 19:03:33

Pesala

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Originally posted by Hades32:

But beware that there currently is a bug so that you have to click: 2,4 and 6 times.

No problem if the hotclick menu is disabled. If it is enabled, I can only select a word, unless I double-click in free space after the paragraph — then 3 clicks gets the sentence, and 4 gets the paragraph.

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