I thought to myself “hey, I’ll just reimplement text selection myself! How difficult could it possibly be?” I was young. Naive. I estimated it would take two weeks. In reality, attempting to solve this problem would consume several years of my life

“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried.”

Jesse Grosjean (Hog Bay Software)’s text affinity feature has some interesting ideas on selecting and editing text less painful. I always meant to go try Bike but I never did!