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Using the mouse |
The mouse can be used to do three things:
- set the cursor
- make selections
- paste text
(Of course it can also be used to use the scroll bar, but this won't be explained here...)
For details on selections see Cut, Copy and Paste.
Left mouse button
- click
- sets the cursor to the click position
- drag
- selects the text under the mouse pointer
- double click
- selects a word
- triple click
- selects a line
- every click after that:
- without shift: add another line to the selection
- with shift: add another word to the selection
Middle mouse button
- click
- pastes the paste buffer at the click position
Right mouse button
- click
- extends or shrinks the selection from cursor or start of selection to the click position.
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