Hello to you all, I was not aware that this been filed as a bug! The matter of fact, myself and many others thought of it as an advantage of gedit over other editors and we do use it intensively. Now, we do seriously miss it after upgrading to ubuntu 16.04 which comes shipped with the latest gedit version.
But, since there are different preferences here as you may find, perhaps an option under preferences would be great where one can enjoy gedit treating underscore as word delimiter or the other way. Thank you, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615506 Title: Underscore must be a part of the word Status in gedit: Fix Released Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Any known to me text editor (not a text processor) would treat underscore character '_' as a part of the word it's attached to, but gedit does not. This causes all word-related actions to be limited to only part of the word, e.g.: create_if_doesnt_exist=1 where 'create_if_doesnt_exist' is essentially one word, but double- click on 'create' selects only this part of the word. The same applies to all other word related operations. This is incorrect and undesirable in many cases. There must be at least an option to make underscore one of the word chars (like \w in regexes). NB: This is not a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/413360 ! The above entry only refers to selecting words with double-click. Mine is more general: the problem applies to all operations supposed to affect whole words: - Double-click selection - Next/Prev Word (Ctrl+Left/Right) - Find and Replace with Match entire word only turned on - Title Case command from Change Case plugin - Spell-checking One of the most often recommended solutions is Click_Config plugin at http://code.google.com/p/gedit-click-config/ However I think it's a wrong way of resolving this issue. The problem isn't about clicks, it's about determining what is a part of the word, and what isn't. Fixing clicks does not root the cause. That wouldn't help replacing whole words, for example, nor would it act as expected in other cases, eg. when a plugin scans for identifiers in the text. Originally posted as a question: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+question/120519 gedit 2.30.3, Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 32-bit. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/615506/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
