60613 - Double-click to select word shouldn't select punctuation marks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16352

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Description

[Adam]

When you select a word by double-clicking, any punctuation mark immediately
following the word should not be selected. For example:

SelectMeNow!

Notice that both the word and the exclamation point are selected. I'm not aware
of any other app that displays this behavior: the Finder, SimpleText, Word,
AppleWorks, etc., all omit the punctuation mark when selecting via double-click.
This is most annoying in HTML Form text entry fields (such as the comments
field), but is present everywhere.

Note that this has to be smart as you need to be allowed to select contractions
(hasn't, etc.) and hyphenated words and not symbols (TM, etc.). My guess is to
check to see if the last character is a letter and, if it isn't, omit it when
selecting.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16352 ***

Comment 2

[Hans Peter Groendal]

Verified, this is a duplicate of bug 16352 "Heuristics used for selecting
double-clicked words are a bit primitive."