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It also happens on single click (possibly to make changing the text size easy), and you can also highlight by dragging and it'll work, but I still like to double click to highlight.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like it was designed for touch screens with no regard for people using a mouse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

more like "we forgot to add text size options and we need to release it in 2 days" and the interim dev just slapped together a solution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mouse users have the luxury of dragging and selecting the texts without much effort so I don't think it's that much of an issue

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I often do the double click and drag to select by word like OP does, but double tapping a touch screen is a common gesture to zoom in. I would be annoyed too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Double tap to select a word is a thing on mobile too, works in most input fields, it annoyed me it didn't work in jerboa app though, I use it definitely more than I'd use double tap to zoom

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to get certified in office only using a keyboard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

An unironically Vi(m)/Emacs moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't even knew that was a thing. Thanks for the tip.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

it was written by someone with only a microsoft office certification, so