Sentence Selection and Navigation

[landi3337]

Some old word processor I had used to allow the following for selection:

double click to select word
triple click to select sentence
quadruple click to select paragraph

Is it possible to set up NWE to do this?

Second question, is there a way for me to set up a keyboard command (such as opt-cmd-right arrow) that will jump to the beginning of the next or previous sentence?

Thanks.

[rmark]

Indeed, Nisus Writer Classic did the following

• Double-click to select a word.
  Triple-click to select a sentence.
  Click four times to select a paragraph.
  Click five times to select the entire document (everything in the active window (except Graphics that have the attribute Fix to Page)).

We had a command Select All Documents which (duh) selected all the text in all open documents. (You could then modify the font/size/style, etc. of all of them at once (without bringing each one to the front) by pressing OPTION as you choose the attribute(s) you wanted.)

Then, because we supported noncontiguous selection we also had a command (yet to be implemented in Nisus Writer Express) that would select the inverse of what was selected.

We used to joke that if you kept going:

• Click six times to select everything on your hard drive.
  Click seven times to select everything on your local network.
  Click eight times to select everything on the Internet.

There seems to be something in the Cocoa text engine that is designed for engineers, not prose writers. For engineers, each paragraph is a sentence.

As for navigating with the keyboard, similar restrictions are imposed by Apple (at this time). We hope to get around them.