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Bug 210572

Summary:	Right-click in editor should select word
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Greg Watson <g.watson>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	andre_weinand, daniel_megert, lshanmug, Silenio_Quarti, snorthov
Version:	3.3.1	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Greg Watson

2007-11-21 14:45:05 EST

The default behavior for MacOS X native text editors seems to be that the word under the insertion point is selected when right-clicking. Some applications don't select the word, but they still move the insertion point (see list below.) Eclipse neither moves the insertion point nor selects the word. This makes Eclipse different to other applications. This bug is related to #19825, but in the case of MacOS X, the behavior is consistent across most applications.

Select word:
- Mail
- Safari
- Pages
- Keynote
- Xcode
- TextEdit
- Terminal
- iCal
- iWeb
- Stickies

Move insertion point:
- Word
- Powerpoint
- Dreamweaver
- Lotus Notes

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2007-11-22 04:00:11 EST

Moving to SWT: in bug 19825 it is stated that SWT does what the Platform does and this seems not to be the case on Mac OS X.

Comment 2 Andre Weinand

2007-11-22 04:32:24 EST

Yes, for native apps this analysis is correct.
However, for Java based apps this does not seem to be true: all IDEs I tried had the same behavior as Eclipse.
So if we want to become "more native" than Java, we should fix this behavior.

Comment 3 Silenio Quarti

2012-06-22 11:57:46 EDT

Still a problem in cocoa.

Comment 4 Lakshmi P Shanmugam

2017-07-03 07:45:55 EDT

Bug triaged, visit https://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/Devel/Triage for more
information.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2020-03-05 16:41:30 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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