Closed
Bug 125172
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
when clickSelectsAll is off, double-click in url bar should only select one word (triple-click to select whole line)
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: michael.wardle, Assigned: aaronlev)
References
Details
Most user interface standards I'm aware of specify that: - single click positions the text insertion point ("I bar" or "caret") - double click selects the word under the cursor - triple click selects the line under the cursor (or sometimes the paragraph?) Therefore I propose that Mozilla follows these guidelines in the URL bar. It already does this in the text editing fields, so should do so in the URL bar for consistency. Other applications that do this that come to mind are Galeon and Microsoft Word.
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Assignee: mpt → hewitt
Component: User Interface Design → URL Bar
QA Contact: zach → claudius
Summary: double-click in title bar should only select one word (triple-click to select whole line) → double-click in url bar should only select one word (triple-click to select whole line)
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Comment 2•23 years ago
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not quite the same as specified, but this is pretty much a dupe of bug 62491 , isn't it?
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Comment 3•23 years ago
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The discussion in that bug does, in a vague way, relate to this bug, I guess, altho that bug's summary is almost the opposite (mutually exclusive) with what I'm saying. I worry that if this gets duped, the issue won't be discussed or resolved, as the other one's already closed.
Comment 4•23 years ago
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Triple-clicking should select a word, not double-clicking (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62491#c10). Using double-clicks to select a word within the URL bar would make it harder to place the insertion point without selecting anything. Wontfix.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 5•23 years ago
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I did not see any clear agreement in bug 62491, and it's still not resolved. The behaviour suggested in bug 62491 is inconsistent with other text fields, and so I strongly oppose it.
Comment 6•23 years ago
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Bug 62491 comment 2 agrees with me. Indeed, about the only consensus in that bug is that what you want, Jesse, is only relevant if "clickSelectsAll" is enabled (according to that bug's summary). I'm talking about standard GUI behaviour.
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Comment 7•23 years ago
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I don't like the way you WONTFIXed this bug, especially as you have an agenda going in bug 62491, even tho I do not believe you had consensus there, either. Is WONTFIXing a valid and fair way of getting what you want?
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
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Comment 8•23 years ago
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To elaborate, this bug should be used to get consistent, standard text field behavior (as per bug 62491, comment 10) to also apply to the URL bar. I expect this is applicable when clickSelectsAll is *not enabled* (standard Unix behaviour, I believe).
Comment 9•23 years ago
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Sorry for the hasty wontfix, I didn't realize you were talking about the case where clickSelectsAll is not enabled. (To prevent this kind of misunderstanding, I often use the "steps to reproduce, expected behavior, actual behavior" pattern when I file bugs instead of just stating what I expect to happen.) I think this is a duplicate of bug 98546, "Better word-break detection (double-clicking, Control+arrow keys, Control+Backspace/Delete)". The problem isn't that Mozilla is doing the wrong thing with double-click, it's that it's considering the entire URL to be a single word instead of considering slashes to be word breaks.
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Updated•23 years ago
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Whiteboard: DUPEME
Comment 10•23 years ago
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This is essentially a dup -- but that bug has gotten so crowded with issues that I don't think Mike is even looking at it. I think it's helpful to have another bug open that clearly states the simple problem, which is that double-click often doesn't do word selection in the url bar as it should. It's basic functionality that every other app does right, and it really should be fixed. Reassigning to Mike (but keeping hewitt on the cc in case there's some reason he didn't reassign it earlier).
Assignee: hewitt → mjudge
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 11•23 years ago
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this is the same bug that i just bounced to pink. pink you could DUPE this to the onei just sent you as well as see if we can fix this for windows like on mac?
Assignee: mjudge → pinkerton
Comment 12•23 years ago
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i'm very confused. mjudge bounced me one bug which had nothing to do with the fact that the url bar uses different click semantics than any other textbox in existance. this bug, by the summary, is about that aspect. --> default owner
Assignee: pinkerton → hewitt
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Comment 13•23 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104380 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Comment 14•23 years ago
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Don't know what happened there... Reopening, removing duplicate...
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Comment 15•22 years ago
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I just commented in bug 98546, but maybe that comment belongs here instead... IE (Windows) handles double-click two different ways. If you enter "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/" in the Address field, keep that field focused, and double-click "mozilla", the entire address is selected. If you repeat the same action in a text field, only "mozilla" is selected.
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Comment 16•22 years ago
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My fix for this is part of the patch in bug 98546.
Assignee: hewitt → aaronl
Status: REOPENED → NEW
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Comment 17•22 years ago
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fixed via checkin for bug 98546.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 18•22 years ago
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The behaviour I expect is described in bug 62491, specifically bug 62491 comment 10. Note that this makes a special case of the URL bar. Several people have seen the new bevaiour as a regression (see, for example, bug 188567). It it notable that IE makes a special case of the URL bar (using the select all - place caret - select word approach), which makes more sense if click to select is enabled since the second click is the first time the caret appears and the third click then selects the word containing the caret. This behaviour is consistent with other applications (first click places caret, second click selects word), but with an extra click at the start because a common URL bar operation is replacing the whole URL with that for a different site. The current bevaviour is for the rather odd select all - select word - select all. Therefore at the very least, the patch for this should be dependent on the clickToSelect pref.
Updated•22 years ago
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Summary: double-click in url bar should only select one word (triple-click to select whole line) → when clickSelectsAll is off, double-click in url bar should only select one word (triple-click to select whole line)
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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