Yes, to track my reading position
Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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#322Yes,for intra-page bookmark
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#323I don't at all, but I still think it's a very interesting concept I'd love to see taken further. I almost felt bad hitting "No" because of it.
Maybe I'll become a convert.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to drag windows around in a similar manner... until windows 7 decided two or tree back and forths indicated "minimize everything else".
Me too. I desperately wanted to turn that feature off but never managed to find a way. I can't tell you how many times I was just jiggling a window around (usually the browser, while I thought something through or tried to work out what I was going to do next), and all of a sudden my other windows got minimized. Before that it used to be holding the shift key for 5 seconds while I paused to think. That was especially…
You can disable it pretty simply: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-aero-shake-...
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#325no
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#326Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#327In the days before mouse wheels, I always used selecting to scroll: If you move the mouse downwards while selecting, you'll start to scroll. This was nice until mouse wheels were invented.
Nowadays I often still click the middle mouse button to enter a scroll mode where there's a cursor with arrows on the screen. Moving it scrolls. Unfortunately this feature was removed in Visual Studio 2010, but an extension brings it back.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worse: some like Trello do enter in edit mode.
The latest version of JIRA also enters edit mode. It's made JIRA that much more annoying to use for me.
I don't highlight to read, and JIRA's new behavior irritates me. When I need to copy and paste something, having the box suddenly change to edit mode throws me off.
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#329I generally use the keyboard to do everything it can on the computer, including to navigate long articles. I use the arrow keys to keep whatever I'm reading near the top of the page. In fact, if there were an easy way to keyboard-navigate the entire internet, short of scrolling around with the arrow keys, I'd never touch my mouse.
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#330I just randomly select blocks of text on the screen. Usually text that I am not currently reading. I don't scroll, I don't use it to highlight where I'm reading. I just do it for fun.