Select word with double click and line with 3 clicks

[lebakasable]

Idea

All is in title

[wisnoskij]

Came to suggest this. Would be great to have leftclick, etc button support. And I would argue all day long for OP idea to be the sane defaults. I dont think anyone what wants any sort of mouse support at all not wanting double/triple click selection support.

[theaog]

why re-implement mouse support in the editor when you can use your terminal app support?
I use Alacritty and just press Shift and get all mouse selection features; double/triple-click, boxed selection, etc.

[ngasull]

Because selecting from the displayed content isn't the same as creating an helix selection in the actual content.

Would love having double click select surrounding word for quick replacements!

[theaog]

Because selecting from the displayed content isn't the same as creating an helix selection in the actual content.

Would love having double click select surrounding word for quick replacements!

miw / maw

[KiaraGrouwstra]

would love to see this resolved as well. the current behavior seems not to be quite as useful.

[peterjc]

I'd like this too as the default - initially misfiled as a duplicate issue: #12500

I'd even like to be able to go further, building on https://docs.helix-editor.com/textobjects.html and LSP support - for instance being able to configure extra mouse buttons as select function or class. I'd like to try ctrl+click or meta+click, or things like three-figure click on a supported device.

(My thinking is currently I read a lot of code under mouse control - wheel scrolling etc - and then occasionally need to move to the keyboard)

[nik-rev]

Extended mouse support would be really nice to have. I've gone ahead and implemented this in the PR: #12514

[soomtong]

Does use a mouse in HX? I never thought of that!