Submission details
Pages: select whole line
If you want to select a whole line of text, you have to either tripple-click on the left side of the page or use keyboard shortcuts.
Both ways are somewhat uncomfortable. It would be greate to have an easier mouse selection function like in Word.
Copy/adopt the behaiour of MS Word: on the left side of the page the mouse cursor gets horizontally mirrored. This indicates, that with a single click, the whole line gets selected.
This is quite userfriendly, because it visually indicates that you're on the right spot to select. The single click is preferable over a tripple-click, because it is easier.
It doesn't matter who the cursor looks like, but there should be a visual indicator that informs you, that a single click selectes the who line.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Discussion (2 comments)
Triple-click is unacceptable, imho. Why is this a UI trick?
If everything new is a trick (and bad), then there would never be something new and improvements would not be possible ...
Is triple-click really user-friendly?
abitgone wrote on February 6, 2009, 1:24pm
Triple-click for the win: consistency rules.
A Microsoft UI trick does not a standard make.