word-select surprise

[Andrew Parsloe]

I have a command-sequence that uses word-select prior to using cut. 
Recently I was surprised to find the content of the *previous* item 
saved to the clipboard being pasted rather than the expected one. After 
experimenting, I think an unintuitive cursor positioning is the cause.
Suppose your word is abcdefghijk. If the cursor is positioned after the 
k and you invoke word-select the whole word abcdefghijk is selected. 
Howeve if you start selecting character by character from the right 
(Shift + left arrow) and then after a few characters invoke word-select 
the selection is cancelled, leaving the cursor where it started after 
the k (meaning the cut operation of my command sequence had nothing to 
save to the clipboard).
In the other direction, with cursor positioned before the a and then 
(Shift+right arrow) a few characters selected, invoking word-select 
expands the selection to the whole word. To my mind this is the 
behaviour I would expect also in the backward direction (as is the case 
in LibfreOffice).
This is in 2.4.0 alpha3 on windows 10.
Andrew
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