#1569 Whitespace selection doesn't work as expected

[ben weir]

Hi,

I am a long time user of xterm, aterm, gnome-terminal, putty and all of these handle selection of horizontal whitespace the same way. However iTerm does it differently and IMHO does it in a broken fashion.

Action: Double click on some whitespace in between two words
Expected result: The entire whitespace is highlighted and copied to the clipboad
Actual result in iTerm: nothing

Action: Double click on some whitespace at the right side of the terminal window
Expected result: The entire whitespace is highlighted and a newline is copied to the clipboard
Actual result in iTerm: nothing

Action: Triple click a line
Expected result: The entire line is highlighted and copied to the clipboard including trailing newline
Actual result in iTerm: The newline is not copied to the clipboard

Action: Double click a word and then drag left and right to extend the selection on word boundaries
Expected result: Contiguous blocks of horizontal whitespace are treated as words and the selection extends across the entire block at once
Actual result in iTerm: The selection is only extended one space at a time as if you were still in character selection mode instead of word selection mode

Note: Terminal.app also gets all of the above right although it has its own problems that make it not very usable for me

Macbook running snow leopard
iTerm 0.10

[Anonymous]

Hi Ben,
iTerm is no longer being developed. Please follow the fork at http://code.google.com/p/iterm2. This bug is being tracked at http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=84