Selecting Text in an Editor

To select text in the Vi Editor Window, use the following mouse and key combinations:

Double-click	Selects a word (characters not including white space).
Triple-click	Selects all text in a line.
Quadruple-click	Selects all text in the file.
Control-double-click	Selects a C identifier (a sequence of letters, digits, and underscores).
Control-triple-click	Selects all text in a line.
Control-quadruple-click	Selects all text in the file.
Alt-double-click	Selects a C identifier (a sequence of letters, digits, and underscores).
Alt-triple-click	Selects all text in a line.
Alt-quadruple-click	Selects all text in the file.

Select any sequence of characters by dragging or by using click-Shift-click.

To select text in the NEdit, XEmacs, GNU Emacs, or Vim editors, see the online documentation available through the editor's Help menu.

For example, for the NEdit editor, choose Help Basic Operation Selecting Text.