On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > phrase. I was able to then choose a few more random snippets while > holding the CTRL key down the hold time.
For whatever it's worth, I can't duplicate your success in rxvt-unicode or Brave in fvwm (X11), but I *can* get it to work in Firefox ESR in the same session. It's a little bit clumsy. If I select a word/phrase lower on the page first, and then a word higher on the page second, the resulting paste has the higher word first. Also, double-clicking a word selects only that word, with no whitespace before or after it, which is normally what you want. But in this case, the lack of whitespace can be an issue. When you double-click several words while holding Ctrl, you get allthewordsmashedtogether. It would be interesting to know what Firefox ESR (or more likely, its underlying toolkit) is doing differently to enable this feature. And which other programs/toolkits also do it. > If that doesn't work at all on any given webpage, it will likely have > something to do with how the webmaster coded the page. That may be theoretically possible -- I don't know for sure. But I'm pretty sure this is a feature of the browser itself (or the toolkit libraries it uses), not of the *page*.
