*sigh*

[netmouse]

I wish there was a way to tell my whole computer, once and forever, "do NOT ever select the whole word automatically when I am editing". When I am moving the mouse to select something, I would like to select the part I indicate, thank you, not random other things too.

Whoever invented that option and made it the default in many programs has a special circle of hell waiting, I think.

Comments

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

You want a computer-wide default that overrides each individual piece of software? Somehow that doesn't sound like a good plan.

It is an awfully strange choice for a default, though. The auto-capitalize is more infuriating, but at least it's obvious what's going on and you can search for the toggle to turn it off. The whole-word select is subtle. I always think it's just me - I must be clicking the mouse accidentally - and keep trying more and more carefully to select just the letters I want. It takes me a stupidly long time to realize that it's an option that I have to turn off. *duh* I don't think that it used to be the Microsoft default until relatively recently (and by recently I probably mean "10 years." I'm a slow learner.)

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that it was something Microsoft had deliberately set up until I read this post and your comment. I always thought the same thing you did - that it was just my poor fine motor control causing me to move the mouse further than I intended. Argh.

(And count me as another who hates the auto-capitalize. Sometimes a period is just meant to indicate an abbreviation or initials, not the end of a sentence...)