Does anyone know how to highlight an ENTIRE directory path or URL?

Godling
My way of doin' it...
 
Select a directory (to any depth) via Explorers left pane. At the top of Explorer, the current path will be shown with little black triangles separating directories. While in this 'triangle' mode (shall we call it?), right click the address/path window to copy it.
 
If you left click on the address/path window first, it will be turned into text and the right-click context menu will change on you and not be as handy.

jamesg1213
I might be misinterpreting what you mean (still on my first cup of tea), but if I want to copy the browser URL, left clicking on the first letter in the URL highlights the whole thing.

Beepster

paulo
 
 

jamesg1213
I might be misinterpreting what you mean (still on my first cup of tea), but if I want to copy the browser URL, left clicking on the first letter in the URL highlights the whole thing.

 
Maybe I have misunderstood too, but I just left click anywhere along the url and it highlights in full every time. Win 8.1 / FF 35.0.1.

That's on the first click though and can be done anywhere in the URL on the first click. If you happen to click again then you have to do the really fast triple click to get the whole URL again.
 
 

bitflipper
Have you forgotten CTL-A? It works in SONAR, too.

sharke

Beepster
Triple click works without fail on this system. You just gotta click really fast. Of course you also have to do it when NOTHING is highlighted so if one word is highlighted click once more to unhighlight it THEN triple click really fast.
 
If you do it too slow it'll just select one word instead of the whole thing.
 
I'm also on Firefox so not sure if that makes a difference.

It works for me too - sometimes. That's what bugs me. It's like you have to get the speed exactly right to within 0.00000000000001mm/s or else it doesn't work.

sharke

Beepster
Yup, but he's talking about while the cursor is still in the URL/address bar. By clicking outside the URL bar you start from scratch so the first click will snag it again. Totally works and totally easy but it could be construed as more awkward because you have to move the cursor to do it. With the triple click it can be done without navigating away from the address bar.
 
It really isn't any huge deal (or even a small deal) but I think sharke and I share some of the same curiosity/compulsions about silly stuff like this.

You're right there Beepster - I think you and I are the sort to get frustrated when going through manuals when one method of doing something doesn't work as described. There may be other perfectly good ways of doing it - that are even more convenient - but that doesn't stop the frustration you feel when one method doesn't work properly.
 
I experience inconsistency in other apps too and I hate it. For example when I'm copy-dragging appointments in my Outlook calendar by CTRL-dragging, sometimes it will just drag a copy of the appointment out and place it where I drop it as expected. Every now and then though, when I release the button a menu appears asking me if I want to "copy" or "move" the appointment. I could swear the programmers are just having a laugh.