Can I select a whole sentence / paragraph with a triple-click on Windows 7?

Question

As a linguist I often have to switch back and forth between Mac and Windows environments. I find that for the sake of rapidly editing text for several hours a day, having the advantage to chose between 3 types of selection on the Mac makes my workflow faster.

However, when working on the PC environment (Windows 7), I find that I spend (or rather waste) a lot of time selecting "by hand" (meaning dragging from the first letter to the last) whole paragraphs (or whole sentences inside paragraphs).

What I am trying to do is go from this:

To this:

Note: The triple-click isn't a "select all" action, it only selects a paragraph defined by a dot or a line break.

Note: This would ideally be a system setting to allow for many programs within the Windows environment to function this way. The programs I use are somewhat limited and there are no ways to just use another one.

Answer 1

How the mouse reacts to certain click-combinations is controlled by the applications.

I.E.:

• In Word you can click Ctrl+Click to select a sentence.
• In Wordpad (built into Windows) and Notepad++ triple-click = select line.

So I'd suggest getting/using a more feature-rich text editor than Notepad.exe, since it's intended to be as basic a text editor as possible.