sweet! i had no idea text selections even behaved this way recently.

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In case it's not obvious, the AppleScript record is just one example of what's affected by the Word Break setting. I'm not sure if it's completely generalized, but using "English (United States, Computer)" makes double-click selection behave more the way I like it to in Terminal, which is the first thing I checked after switching to that setting. Thanks for the frustration-relieving hint!

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The changes to text selection have made me nuts!

Does Apple ever consider that the people who USE text selection conventions and short-cuts have already developed muscle memory and there is no benefit to changing these?

Yikes.

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I know people that know people who don't use AppleScript records that much and are more than happy that they can double-click select a whole HFS style file path in the Script Editor with the Word Break setting left at Standard.

"MacHD:Users:foo:Desktop:"

In that regard I wished there was a modifier key you could press so that the Standard behavior could be activated temporarily. But even with such a feature a blank space would break the double-click selected range. So, whatever.

If you strongly feel that the default behavior in 10.3 was better than in 10.4 then consider giving Apple some feedback, so they know.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

Let's hope that we actually will still live to see input technology controlled by our thoughts.

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Excellent tip.

Another handy side-effect of this is that when you double-click and copy a word, it no longer inserts a space before it when it is pasted again. This used to drive me insane when wanting to enter bbcode in Safari to reference a thread or post and I would need to flick back one word to take out the space each time. The interesting thing is that dragging and selecting the word would not result in this behaviour. Only double-clicking.

Thanks again.

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