Select whole link with a double click

[juzernejm]

Hi.
I want to select a link (like: www.xyz.com) with a double click, like I would do to select a word,
but it's impossible because the selection stops at a symbol.

For example:
If I double click on this word: [text], it only selects "text" and not the square brackets;
The same if I want to select a name of a file I have in Textedit, like: filename.txt. the selection stops at the point.

Is there a way to make it select the whole block with a double-click?

Thanks.

 

[Nigel Goodman]

I tried a left-click (the mouse needs to be configured to do this) on the examples you give. The web link was entirely selected as was the filename.txt (including the full-stop at the end). In the text example the square brackets were not selected.

The disadvantage of a left-click is that you get the contextual menu popping up. I just press escape to get rid of that.

This is the only way I have found to select the GPS location address in Google maps. Other forms of selection do not work.

 

[juzernejm]

Left click?! Maybe you ment right click?

Anyway.. one cause your computer responds differently might be because I'm on OSX 10.10
I wrote a simle apple script to automate this but still I'm curious if this behaviour on macs could be fixed.

I might be wrong but on Windows and Linux when you double click on a word with symbols between the letters, it selects the whole thing.. I'm not sure though.

As I googled this I saw other people found this annoying but no-one could give a good solution.