[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30106: Text editor, highlighted words (by clicking on them): Select preceding instead of trailing space
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#30106: Text editor, highlighted words (by clicking on them): Select preceding
instead of trailing space
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Reporter: let me see... | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Editor | Version: 4.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Focuses: |
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#If this is not an issue which can be solved by Wordpress, but only on
browser level, please advise where to apply with this.#
When I edit my texts, I oft want to put words to another place in my
sentence. To highlight them, I can double click on these words, and then,
the word plus the trailing space will be selected for C&P or drag'n'drop.
However, that makes my work more tedious. Since oftenly after copying, the
trailing space is not needed any more, while it is missing right before
the word. Two examples with German punctuation rules applied:
Example 1: The grey dog was barking. -> The dog was barkinggrey . (After
copying and moving "grey", and before any other change is made to the
sentence. Exactly the wrong space was selected: The trailing one. Making
two additional changes necessary.)
Example 2: The dog, which barked, was grey. -> Thegrey dog, which barked,
was . (After copying "grey": foregoing space missing, making another
manual space necessary between grey and dog, and removing it and the end
of the sentence - again, two completely unnecessary steps of work.)
This costs me a lot of time, since I really juggle words. Therefore, I
would like to suggest: When highlighting a word in the editors by clicking
on it, the foregoing space (if available) should be selected, instead of
the trailing one.
This will have no downside, since punctuation always follows words, and
never comes before them (except in spanish). So always selecting the
foregoing space is almost always the more intelligent choice.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30106>
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