Cannot drag selected text
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Sure this, or something similar has been mentioned - not sure if in a bug though..
Continuing the discussion from The bad ideas thread:
https://twitter.com/michaeljhudson/status/462103006410858496
Repro:
- Highlight the t.co URL in that tweet
- Left-click-hold over the selected text and drag then drop to create a new tab
Expected:
The highlighted text (or a representation of it) should follow the cursor until dropped in the relevant tab area, where upon a new tab is created with the URL loaded into itActual:
Left clicking starts a new selection.
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drag then drop to create a new tab
Huh, learned something new. Thanks.Where I notice this is in the editor. In, like every other editor ever, you can select text and drag it around to reorganize your writing. In the Discurse editor, dragging is impossible because
Left clicking starts a new selection.
Yeah, that.
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+1
This has been annoying me for some time. I like to be able to drag selected text into the address bar and open a new tab.
Shouldn't be too difficult to fix.
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I think if you want this, you have to disable highlight quote reply in your user prefs. These things are mutually exclusive.
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Done. That fixes it, thanks.
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These things are mutually exclusive.
This doesn't surprise me....
Done. That fixes it, thanks.
But breaks other stuff. Like being able to quote more than one post in a reply.
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Incorrect, you can still quote as many posts as you like, you just have to do it manually at that point.
As for why, @dhromed, there is JS magic to put the "quote reply" button above highlighted text, this can interfere with dragging selected text.
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As for why, @dhromed, there is JS magic to put the "quote reply" button above highlighted text, this can interfere with dragging selected text.
And said magic cannot tell if the text being clicked isn't already part of a selection and thus stop doing stuff? (Or, as a brute force, if there is already some text selected, regardless of where it is in relation to the cursor.)
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Actually the reason we have this option is that there is a sizable contingent of users who select text as they read and objected strongly to a Quote Reply button appearing. Same users would also accidentally trigger quoted replies by leaving text selected and clicking Reply button on a post (which also works). So we added the disable user pref.
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users who select text as they read
If I expressed myself carefully, I, uh, "have trouble envisioning this use case".
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I sometimes select text as I read it. White on blue is more readable than black on white
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I have two use cases for doing that (and neither are particularly applicable here):
- Difficult to read text, because of either low-contrast colors or a busy background image. Not a problem here; the subtle differences in background colors are too low-contrast, but the text vs. background is fine.
- As a place-marker when scrolling.
In neither case (would) having the Quote Reply button (be) a problem. I want my
cakebutton andeatdrag it, too.
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As a place-marker when scrolling.
This.
In neither case is having the Quote Reply button a problem.
Probably people in 'other communities' exhibiting behavior we here would call being a pedantic dickweed.
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As a place-marker when scrolling.
I only need that in very uniform walls of text and when I'm tired. A Discourse page certainly provides ample eye hooks.
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I only need that in very uniform walls of text and when I'm tired. A Discourse page certainly provides ample eye hooks.
I didn't say I necessarily use either of those cases here, and I edited my earlier post to make that clearer (edits in parens, since we can no longer see the edit history).
By "place-marker when scrolling" I meant, basically, "scroll away to reread something earlier, and leave a visible indicator to easily find where I was." I agree, Discurse does not need a marker to keep your place in normal reading, and scroll-away-come-back marker is not reliable here, since there's a good chance Discurse may unload that part of the DOM while you're gone.
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I kind-of think bookmarks should be used for this
Read
Bookmark
Move around
gb take me to my closest bookmark above where I am at on this topic
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