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Erik Richard Sørensen <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:13:16 +0200
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Abdassamad Clarke wrote:
>>>> And the lines are terminated by carriage returns? Or do line breaks
>>>> happen automatically?
>>>
>>> There are no carriage returns, which really puzzles me.
>>
>> This means that - if you want to select something - a double-click
>> will only select '1' word at a time and a triple-click will select
>> the whole paragraph.
>
> Perhaps because of the Arabic vowels, double clicking won’t select
> an entire word but a large number of words.

This may be the reason - especially if the vowels - like in some other 
Semitic languages - 'bind' over a space between two separate words. In 
this case a double-click will highlight as many words as being 'bound' 
by the vowels.

Cheers, Erik Richard

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