MATLAB Editor/Window blocks click cycling

I'm not sure if this is a bug or just a preference, but it's something that has been frustrating me for a long time. It appears as if MATLAB (2019a and 2019b but it's been a problem for a while) on Windows/Linux does not cycle through the highlighting options when clicking. Rather than press Shift+Home/End to highlight a line, I'd rather just double click to highlight or word or triple click to highlight a line. The problem is sometimes I might accidentally click three times instead of two, or decide I want to highlight a whole line rather than a single word, and then I won't be able to cycle back through the highlighting options via clicks. Moreover there aren't any shortcuts, as far as I know, to highlight a line without using Home/End, which as a right hander requires movement from mouse to keyboard. I might not have noticed this or been frustrated with it if this was not how highlighting works on native Windows/Linux apps. It seems exclusive to MATLAB. I'm wondering if there are any ways around this, I've searched extensively through available MATLAB options to no avail. Any suggestions would be helpful, or maybe I should make a feature request/bug report?

[Walter Roberson]

Datapoint:

R2019b for Mac does the expected cycling through with double-click selecting words and triple-click selecting the line.

[Rob G]

I tried running emac shortcut settings to no avail.

Also note I'm using 2019b on Windows 10 and 2019a on Linux version:

Operating System: Fedora 30 (MATE-Compiz)

CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

Kernel: Linux 5.0.16-300.fc30.x86_64

Architecture: x86-64

Answer 1

[Rob G]

Researching another problem I learned that the older editor is being slowly replaced by the Live Editor. Interestingly, the new Live Editor has fixed this problem of click cycling. That helps a lot but it still doesn't work for command line or anywhere else in MATLAB.