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Long-tap on comment text should display text selector (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Synthead@lemmy.world to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

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Currently, looking-tap behavior hides the comment. This should enable text selection instead.

Additionally, the comment hiding should be a visible option of its own.

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[–] siipale@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I have requested this feature before. Either an option to select an alternate function for long press or an option to disable long press entirely. I tend to scroll slow so I often hide some comments even if I didn't mean to.

[–] galilette@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Copy text doesn't cut it because sometimes I just need to select a sentence or a link, not the full text.

This is also a problem for the post itself, not just comments.

On android, long press for text selection is standard operation.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the long press for comment collapse feature extensively and removing it would break my user experience, maybe this can be an alternative option for long press but I definitely need the existing functionally to stay put.

[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could be a long tap on the space to the right of the comment timestamp.

There should definitely be a way to select the text of a comment.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copy Text

[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Part of the issue is that three dot option is pushed off screen for me in very nested comments (like yours). I can only see it comments closer to the root.

It is also nicer to be able to select which text you want to copy.