XFCE/FeatherPad double click: specify characters as part of word (similar to xfce4-terminal)

[zephyr707]

Hello,
I want FeatherPad to recognize a period between two numbers when double clicking. So double clicking on 1000.00 would select that whole block rather than the block numbers on either side individually or the period individually if that makes sense. I'm not sure if this is a per application setting or something to be set in the XFCE preferences somewhere. xfce4-terminal has a specific preference setting for configuring this behavior:

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Double click: Use this text box to specify characters or groups of characters that Terminal considers to be words when you select text by word.

how can I implement the same behavior in FeatherPad?

thank you

[Stevo]

It seems to be more something that would have to be implemented in its Qt 6 code, instead of some desktop's settings.

https://github.com/tsujan/featherpad

Are there other text editors that already have this setting?

[fehlix]

Hello,
I want FeatherPad to recognize a period between two numbers when double clicking. So double clicking on 1000.00 would select that whole block rather than the block numbers on either side individually or the period individually if that makes sense. I'm not sure if this is a per application setting or something to be set in the XFCE preferences somewhere. xfce4-terminal has a specific preference setting for configuring this behavior:

Try this: Press and hold Ctrl and double-click to mark the whole number.

[zephyr707]

Try this: Press and hold Ctrl and double-click to mark the whole number.

thanks for the suggestion, i had already tried ctrl, alt, shift, and combos of the 3, but nothing worked

[zephyr707]

It seems to be more something that would have to be implemented in its Qt 6 code, instead of some desktop's settings.

https://github.com/tsujan/featherpad

Are there other text editors that already have this setting?

oh bummer, def not worth it for that.

sublime has it in their prefs:

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// Characters that are considered to separate words
"word_separators": "./\\()\"'-:,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",

featherpad is really nice and lightweight as a default. will maybe try to look for an alt that is a bit more customizable or i guess vi/vim in terminal will work in a pinch

[Stevo]

Try this: Press and hold Ctrl and double-click to mark the whole number.

thanks for the suggestion, i had already tried ctrl, alt, shift, and combos of the 3, but nothing worked

I don't really get it--holding down the Ctrl key and double clicking works here, at least with Featherpad 1.6.1.

[zephyr707]

oh dang, yeah i'm on an older build that has featherpad 0.16.0 on it, let me try my newer one, didn't even think of that, thanks!