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Bug 340949 - Underscore is not treated as a word character when doubleclick selecting
Underscore is not treated as a word character when doubleclick selecting
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 354587
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-07 20:34 UTC by Kristoffer Lundén
Modified: 2007-01-10 13:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Kristoffer Lundén 2006-05-07 20:34:50 UTC 
In most programming languages, the underscore (_), if allowed, is treated as a part of the surrounding word, which enables variable or method names and so on with "spaces" in the name as in "title_without_section". Consequently, most editors treat underscore as a word character when doing syntax highlighting and when selecting whole words.

This does not work in Gedit 2.14.2, Ubuntu Dapper development release. Examples:

  assert_respond_to(@page, 'title_without_section')

Doubleclicking on assert_respond_to inside the respond-part will select only respond. Same thing inside the string. Triple-click selects whole row (good thing). 

Expected result: assert_respond_to or title_without_section are fully selected when doubleclicked.
Comment 1 Kristoffer Lundén 2006-05-07 20:42:50 UTC 
I just realized something else: this probably should be a property of each supported language, with a good default for unrecognized format, and also ideally make a difference on what kind of word it is: Ruby, for instance, also allows ? and ! as parts of a method name. This is of course more of a special case and not as important, but if it affects how to implement it, I thought I better mention it.
Comment 2 Paolo Maggi 2007-01-10 13:54:30 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 354587 ***