Quick text selection @WilliamGallagher
Quick text selection  @WilliamGallagher
Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In any Mac app, you can double click on a word to select it. Or if you triple click, you can select the entire paragraph. There is no similar way to select just the current sentence, but you can pop the cursor at the start then shift-click at the end.

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