Text selection enhancement

asked 2014-01-02 23:02:12 +0200

strnous gravatar image

updated 2014-08-13 10:26:04 +0200

jiit gravatar image

Currently there are three levels of text selection available by pres-and-hold. Word, line and all text. At least for the Mail app (but I think it should be consistent throughout the system) it would be really handy to have one more level that is a paragraph selection (e.g. all text between two newline chars). This naturally belongs between line and all text selection.

EDIT: To clarify the case, I copy one of the comments to the main question:

If you pres and hold, you first select one word. If you just continue holding you select one line. If you hold even a bit longer all the text is selected. All this without moving of the dots at the end of the current selection. What I mean is that if you hold a bit longer after the line is selected, the paragraph would be selected (much easier than by dragging the selection dots), and after one other bit of holding all the text would be selected.

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Not sure what you mean by this. Press-and-hold enables text-selection mode and by dragging the balloons, you can select anything anything between one character and all text. Including a word, a line and a paragraph.

Milo ( 2014-01-03 08:59:20 +0200 )edit

@Milo If you pres and hold, you first select one word. If you just continue holding you select one line. If you hold even a bit longer all the text is selected. All this without moving of the dots at the end of the current selection.

What I mean is that if you hold a bit longer after the line is selected, the paragraph would be selected (much easier than by dragging the selection dots), and after one other bit of holding all the text would be selected.

strnous ( 2014-01-03 09:05:09 +0200 )edit

@strnous ah, now I understand. Hadn't noticed such a feature before. I've been using the selection dots the whole time.

Milo ( 2014-01-03 09:18:28 +0200 )edit

Please adopt the original description with the explaination above, so people can see in first place what's it about :).

STiAT ( 2014-01-18 21:48:14 +0200 )edit
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@STiAT Done :)

strnous ( 2014-01-18 21:56:04 +0200 )edit