Greetings,

I'm moving to UltraEdit from Visual Studio, and one text selection feature that visual studio has that I have a hard time living without is the ability to select a single word by holding down the Ctrl button and single clicking the left mouse button with the cursor over the word to be selected. I know it's possible to change the individual key bindings in the configuration, but it does not seem possible to combine keystrokes and mouse clicks. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance,
stejfish

Have you tried two clicks on your left mouse key instead of one?

Yeah, I know that double clicking a word will select it, but the Crtl+single click is just so confortable when I'm power copy-and-pasting using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V because you don't have to take your left pinky finger off the Ctrl button. If there was a way to do it, it would've been nice.

Thanks for your replies.

stejfish

You can setup AutoHotKey
to replace say Ctrl+<any unused key> to trigger a double click to select your word.

I figured the best way to do this Ctrl+<Single Click> is to simply make two little macros, which is easy to do using the Macro menu. I just go to Edit Macro... in the Macro menu, and in the window that appears click the button labeled New Macro. For copying, I add the SelectWord and Copy commands from the box on the right. I do the same for pasting, except I use the SelectWord and Paste commands. For now, I assigned Alt-c for selecting and copying, and Alt-v for selecting and pasting. So to do my power copy-and-pasting, I move the cursor over to the word I'm going to copy, Alt-c, and then move it to the word I'm going to replace and Alt-v. Problem solved.

That AutoHotkey looks like a nice little utility, it's a lot more than just hotkeys.

Regards,
stejfish