command-click on a word

[Timothy Miller]

I'm not writing to complain about an absent feature. Mostly just curious, and maybe I'll learn something useful.

In recent years, I've come to take it for granted that I can hilite a word and command-click on it to get a pop-up dialog box with items like "cut" "copy" "look up in dictionary" and so on. The specific items depend on the application, but the dialog box usually looks the same.

A few minutes ago, I tried this in a text field an a LC stack and thought, "Hey, why doesn't that work!?" Then I remembered that LC doesn't do that, as far as I know. Yet I have the impression that this is an OS function that any application could invoke.

So, my question: Is this an OS function? If so, why doesn't LC take advantage of it?

I suppose it could be scripted. Is there an LC add-on that conveniently adds this functionality? Or maybe there's a simple LC command I don't know about?

Cheers,

Tim