[Lerc]

On the other hand I hate apps that have user interface elements where you can select the text by accident instead of interacting with the element that contains the text.

Imagine what it would be like if a click and drag on a window title bar moved the window but a click and drag on the text part of the title bar just selected text.

Back in the Amiga days there was a nice little app that let you go into selection mode and then draw a rect around anything and it would pseudo-ocr it. Surely something like that exists on current machines, but I havn't seen it.

[smhenderson]

I know what you’re saying. Our company settled on a well known cloud app for ERP/CRM and daily I deal with copying and pasting something from it that invariably brings along extra text/ui elements that I didn’t want. Sometimes it’s just extraneous space, sometimes it’s extra text I don’t even realize was highlighted.

Another example are tables that have selection boxes for records or “action” links in each row like print or view. If I could select this table without those columns coming along for the copy ride I’d cut at least one if not a few steps out for every time I copy/paste something.