Edit window > Search bar > Find field > confusing "match whole word" option

[FionaDyalog]

Describe the issue you are having

Edit window > Search bar > Find field offers a filter of "match whole word". This is very confusing with APL. As far as I can tell, a word is defined as delimited by spaces or any of the characters (){}[];:,. which doesn't really make sense from an APL perspective. I believe it would be less confusing to a user to remove this option.

Did you connect to an already running interpreter or start the interpreter from RIDE?

irrelevant

How do you reproduce the issue?

Edit window > Search bar > Find field. Play with the "match whole word" filter.

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IDE: Version: 4.1.3353 Platform: Win32 Date: 2018-06-15 21:21:46 +0200 Git commit: fd94d5676e955ec67cf10c19902a10b15eeaa7f8

Interpreter: Version: 17.0.33293 Platform: Windows-64 Edition: Unicode/64 Date: Jun 3 2018 at 20:03:03

[DyalogRichard]

I would imagine that having the option, without it understanding APL semantics, is better than not having it at all.

The exact same problem came up with the ODE recently (which switched to using PCRE rather than a bespoke search engine) - http://mantis.dyalog.com/view.php?id=15422. The solution was to search without any "match whole word" option and then to check and, if necessary, discard matches that did not conform (if text precedes or follows it must be a non-APL word char; the match itself must consist only of APL word chars).

[dyaandys]

.. and it’s quite important that Quad is considered as part of a word .. we even achieved that on the forums ..

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I would imagine that having the option, without it understanding APL semantics, is better than not having it at all.

The exact same problem came up with the ODE recently (which switched to using PCRE rather than a bespoke search engine) - http://mantis.dyalog.com/view.php?id=15422. The solution was to search without any "match whole word" option and then to check and, if necessary, discard matches that did not conform (if text precedes or follows it must be a non-APL word char; the match itself must consist only of APL word chars).

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[e9gille]

The list of word separators has been improved and now includes all primitives (except for ⎕) plus the following:

()[]{}%£#;:'"`$^