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Re:Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files? by armandososa on Thursday March 25, 2010 @06:18PM (#1219683)
What I can't understand is: why would you double-click a webpage?
Re:Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files? by Que on Thursday March 25, 2010 @06:36PM (#1219732)
I doubleclick text and blank areas constantly I realize this probably drives people insane, but while I'm reading a paragraph I will keep doubleclicking to select and deselect the text over and over. Somehow it helps my concentration.. I do this with code as well.

That's why I have bookmarklets to disable the dictionary lookups and other what I consider annoyances on sites that implement those features on doubleclick and yes I've been told that I'm crazy on many occasions.

Re:Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files? by RevRal on Thursday March 25, 2010 @06:56PM (#1219783)
I do this as well.

I do it so, when my attention gets diverted, I can quickly start from where I left off since it'll be highlighted. The obsessive clicking is because I'm obsessive.

Re:Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files? by sammyo on Thursday March 25, 2010 @07:33PM (#1219841)
ditto, ditto
Re:Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files? by TorKlingberg on Thursday March 25, 2010 @06:55PM (#1219777)
To select a word. For example I double-clicked to select 'TextMate', so you search and find out what it is. Turns out it's a Mac text editor.