Text selection in Compose window jumps to top

[Robert Scott]

Whenever I try to copy a section of text from a Compose window and
start by clicking on text at the left edge of the window, the
selection automatically includes all the text from the beginning oif
the whole window. Rarely do I want that behavior, but I don't know
how to turn it off. I have found that if I am very careful and start
by clicking just to the left of the first letter, but not too close to
the left edge of the window, I can make the selection start right
there and not include anything before it. But it is not easy to find
that spot. I would just as soon turn off that feature. Does anyone
know how to turn it off? I looked through the Preferences, including
mouse shortcuts, and didn't see it. I am using Windows 7 and Opera
12.15.

Robert Scott

[Robert Scott]

Can anyone please confirm that this happens to them too?

-Robert Scott

[Robert Scott]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 15:59:39 GMT, no-...@notreal.invalid (Robert
Scott) wrote:

Come on! There has got to be someone who can check this out and
confirm or deny it is a problem.

Robert Scott
Hopkins, MN

[Robert Scott]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 15:59:39 GMT, no-...@notreal.invalid (Robert
Scott) wrote:

Still waiting for an answer. Why does no one find this question worth
investigating? I find it a darned nuisance when I want to revise part
of an e-mail that I am composing, and the selection always wants to
include from the beginning of the document. Many times I have
inadvertantly deleted large sections of text when I was only trying to
change one sentence.

-Robert Scott

[Peter Boulding]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:06:46 GMT, no-...@notreal.invalid (Robert Scott)
wrote in <51c36008...@news.eternal-september.org>:

>Still waiting for an answer. Why does no one find this question worth
>investigating? I find it a darned nuisance when I want to revise part
>of an e-mail that I am composing, and the selection always wants to
>include from the beginning of the document. Many times I have
>inadvertantly deleted large sections of text when I was only trying to
>change one sentence.

Perhaps no-one who frequents this ng is in a position to answer because

a) we have all long abandoned Opera for mail/news purposes because of
problems such as the one you describe

or

b) this isn't the newsgroup opera.mail+news

I'd recommend trying the latter.


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[Robert Carnegie]

On Friday, 17 May 2013 16:59:39 UTC+1, Robert Scott wrote:
> Whenever I try to copy a section of text from a Compose window and
> start by clicking on text at the left edge of the window, the

> selection automatically includes all the text from the beginning of

> the whole window. Rarely do I want that behavior, but I don't know
> how to turn it off. I have found that if I am very careful and start
> by clicking just to the left of the first letter, but not too close to
> the left edge of the window, I can make the selection start right
> there and not include anything before it. But it is not easy to find
> that spot. I would just as soon turn off that feature. Does anyone
> know how to turn it off? I looked through the Preferences, including
> mouse shortcuts, and didn't see it. I am using Windows 7 and Opera
> 12.15.

I don't use the e-mail in Opera. But I notice that
Windows Wordpad has a feature that a click to the left of
a line of text selects that line, but not the whole
document. Also, the pointer changes when it is in position
to do that, to an arrow leaning left, pointing north-east-ish.

So you could copy your text into WordPad to edit... also,
you could probably select from a point that is to /right/ of
the /end/ of the /previous/ line of text. But then you
probably get the line break at the start, as well.
Maybe you can live with that.

It is possible to have a program that watches for text
copied to clipboard and starting with a new line, and
removes the new line. I think I could program it using
the "AutoHotkey" macro tool.

I'm not even in front of Opera right now - but if you click
three times, not two, on text, does it select the line, or
select the paragraph? And then possibly you can shift-click
on a different point where you want the selection to end.

If you're using a touchscreen, it's difficult to do some of
these actions accurately. I particularly had trouble
in Windows 7 when Opera added touch features intended for
Windows 8. But Windows 7 (not 8) has a tool called
"the touch pointer" that gets around this. Basically
it's an on-screen mouse that appears next to your touches,
when it's enabled, and then you can touch the mouse and
use that instead of using touch; move it, click, drag.

Other than all that, <http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/>
says that a separate Opera Mail program is now available’.
I think this is mainly the e-mail of current Opera which
needs to exist independently (for some reason) as Opera
moves towards a release that uses Webkit or Blink as the
fuoundation of web browsing, and it may work exactly as
the e-mail in Opera works, which is what you don't want.

[Peter]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:06:46 +0100, Robert Scott <no-...@notreal.invalid>
wrote:

Are you sure it's not your mouse? I have experienced that sort of
frustrating behaviour particularly with Opera whilst other programs seemed
much less sensitive to selection issues. I use a Logitech wireless mouse.
However a recent reset of the mouse and removal of drivers has cleared the
problem entirely. Having said that,unless your mouse positioning is spot
on, i.e. with the vertical bar on the left-hand side of the left-hand
character, clicking does take the selection point back to the start of the
window with the results you describe.