Bug 456505

Summary: Highlighting/marker tool: double-click on word should mark word, capture whole words
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Lucas Eichhorn <luc42ei>
Component: New backend wishesAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 20.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Lucas Eichhorn 2022-07-09 08:50:44 UTC 
SUMMARY
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I'm a recent user of Okular and I love it. I use it very often for marking text PDFs! The highlighter/marker tool is great. I have 2 suggestions how to make it even greater: a) when it's activated double-clicking on a word should highlight it. Often I just want to highlight one word and it would be very practical and intuitive (as is the case with normal text selection) to highlight/mark it with a double-click. b) starting mid-word with a highlight should capture the whole word from the beginning (or ending mid-word capture the whole word until the end), or at least as an option to capture whole words. This would greatly reduce time needed to mark words because most of it is incurred when aiming for the beginning/end of the passage to be highlighted/marked.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. select highlighter/marker tool
2. double-click on word OR
3. mark a passage, starting/ending mid-word

OBSERVED RESULT
a) word is not marked
b) word is marked mid-word

EXPECTED RESULT
a) word is marked
b) whole word is marked

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
using on Ubuntu

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION