QListWidgetItem's text can't be highlighted / selected

Question

I'm using qt5.2.1 on RHEL6

Aside from using QTextBrowser or rewriting a new widget that uses QLabel instead of QListWidgetItem like QListWidget, how would I be able to make the text individually selectable with the mouse pointer?

For example in a text editor like vim you can drag-click the mouse button over some text and release the mouse, and then you can middle mouse click in a different editor or terminal and it pastes it. I know how to do that through QClipboard but the problem is that the text isn't selectable in the first place. I still want the entire row to be selectable on a single click, which is why I'm using a QListWidget, but if I hold and drag the mouse I'd like to be able to select individual text.

TL;DR: A QLabel has the function setTextInteractionFlags where you can make it mouse selectable, how can I do that for a QListWidgetItem?

Answer 1

in QListWidget can be used setEditTriggers(QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.SelectedClicked) and for all items setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsSelectable|QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled|QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEditable), then on first click the item is selected,

on second the hole text

and a part of text can be selected by mouse

Edit 24.03.2015

To prevent editing by user on this way subclass QstyledItemDelegate (i did it in PyQt5)

class MyDelegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def __init__(self):
        QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate.__init__(self) 

    def setModelData(self,editor,model,index):
        pass # no changes are written to model

and use this delegate for listwidget:

self.delegate = MyDelegate()
self.listWidget.setItemDelegate(self.delegate)

users can delete or change the items text, when editing is finished, the original text appears

Edit 25.03.15: add

def eventFilter(self,editor,event):
    if event.type() == QtCore.QEvent.KeyPress and event.key() not in (QtCore.Qt.Key_Control, QtCore.Qt.Key_C):
        return True
    return QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate.eventFilter(self, editor, event)

to the delegate and users can't edit the text of the items, they only can copy from him