In many text editors and word processors, triple clicking selects a whole line, and triple clicking + dragging selects a range of lines. Unfortunately, this handy shortcut isn’t recognized by TextEdit, the simple text engine built in the Macintosh. As a result, in many TextEdit-based applications triple clicks don’t work the way you’d expect.
TE3Click is a tiny extension that patches TextEdit so it handles triple clicks by selecting whole lines. It was tested (and it works) with the following applications, among the others:
EasyView
MBBText
MuEdit
Note Pad
ResEdit
TeachText
It doesn’t work with Tom Bender’s Tex-Edit, because Tex-Edit does its own
processing of triple clicks to select sentences.
Apple’s Scriptable Text Editor has a built-in algorithm to support triple clicks, but selecting a range of lines is smoother when TE3Click is installed.
I didn’t design an icon suite for TE3Click because the icons alone would take up more space than all the code, but if you think you have a nice icon suite for TE3Click, please send me a copy.
The assembly source code is included in the (unlikely) case that anyone’s interested.