word-select surprise

[Daniel]

On 2022-09-18 16:26, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I am not fully sure whether I understood the recipe. But it's the same 
in stable (no regression), right?

Daniel