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Colon symbol is not treated as a word separator #29

Open polariton opened 5 years ago

polariton commented 5 years ago

Hello,

The Terminator does not treat the colon symbol ":" as a word separator. The most inconvenient consequence of this mistake is a wrong selection of words via double-click.

How to reproduce? Let's assume we have the command line prompt: user@host:~/.config/terminator $ which is obtained by the following command: export PS1="\u@\h:\w $ ".

When I double-click on the ".config/terminator", the Terminator incorrectly selects both the path and hostname: "host:\~/.config/terminator". The Gnome terminal and many others correctly select only the path "~/.config/terminator".

Best regards, Stan

enh commented 4 years ago

yeah, if i remember rightly IPv6 addresses were the reason behind this choice. but i have to admit that i've found it more annoying than helpful. the trickiest case is something like EventQueue.java:721 --- whether or not you want the colon there really depends on context.

despite the fact that other terminal emulators (like gnome terminal) have removed this option, it does seem like there's a reasonable argument for the selection stop characters being configurable.

altaurog commented 1 year ago

For me, treating : as a word character is usually the desired behavior. Consider urls, for example.