179850 - Double-click is not selecting text correctly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 98546

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Greg Dougherty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

This is a "Mac specific bug".  Consider the following text:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Browser

Anywhere I double-click on that line, the text that spans from the beginning of
the line to the next "word break" is all selected.  For that matter, consider
the quoted text on the first line.  If you double-click on bug, it selects bug.
 If you double click on Mac, it selects "Mac.

IOW, the routine that figures out the selection looks "forward" for a "word
break" character, and backwards for whitespace ONLY.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See details
Actual Results:  
See details

Expected Results:  
Select back to the first word break, not the first white space

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

selection

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

related: bug 56402. Hard to make out what that really is a dup of.
Resolving as dup of bug 98546, which is about couble-click and selection.
See the "Additional Comments From Mike Pinkerton 2001-08-01 12:55" there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98546 ***

Comment 3

[:deanis74]

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