word-select surprise

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 11:09:52AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> 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

Testing the latest master commit, I confirm the behavior you describe
and I agree it should be improved.

Scott
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