How do you stop whole line selection

Question

_{Friday, December 28, 2018 3:34 PM}

for the most part I'm only using Visual Studio 2015.

This is not limited to VS2015, I seem to get it sometimes in MSSQL Server Management Studio as well.

I'm using a Window 10 machine remote desktop into a server.

the compiler resides on the server.

I double click on a variable like "Reader" trying to copy it's name.

var Reader = xxx;

but when I paste, instead of just getting "Reader" I get

var Reader = xxx;

I did not see the whole line as selected, I only see Reader selected. There seems to be some ultra-light highlighting of the whole line.

it doesn't matter to me that I could change the highlighting to be blood red so I can see it when the line is selected

It's a 99.9% chance I don't want the whole line selected.

Does anyone know how to only double click select a word instead of a line?

If I could disable the line selection for all of time it would be great.

All replies (2)

_{Monday, December 31, 2018 7:22 AM}

Hi Joe,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

There is the option in the Tool settings: Go to Tools - Options -> Text Editor -> ALl Languages -> unchecked Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection. As I shared in below:

After that, you could copy any word nor whole line.

Hope my answer would be help you.

Sincerely

May

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_{Monday, January 7, 2019 7:37 AM}

Hi Joe,

Have long time no hear you.

I re-try to repro your issue, found one thing could be discussing with you.

I create a C# project and edit a simple definition there: int aaa=1;

When I move the mouse to “aaa” without double-clicking it, it will appear highlighted and then select Copy, after pasting it : “ int aaa =1;” -> “int aaa=1; ”.

If I only did double click “aaa”, copy and pasting it: “int aaa=1;” ->”aaa”;

So I have confused about your description, could you create a new project to repro it and share me the newest info?

May

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