About selecting text with slash

About selecting text with slash

[Angelo Graziosi]

When one double clicks the underscore in this text

   $(B)/def_ghij

also the slash is selected... while if the text does not contain the underscore,

  $(B)/defghij

double clicking the word, does not select the slash...

Other cases would be

  $(B)/def_ghij/   # Both slashes selected
  $(B)/defghij/    # No slash selected


Is this intentional? Really, I do not see the need to have also the slash selected...

Re: About selecting text with slash

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:13:48 +0100 (CET)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> 
> When one double clicks the underscore in this text
> 
>    $(B)/def_ghij
> 
> also the slash is selected... while if the text does not contain the underscore,
> 
>   $(B)/defghij
> 
> double clicking the word, does not select the slash...
> 
> Other cases would be
> 
>   $(B)/def_ghij/   # Both slashes selected
>   $(B)/defghij/    # No slash selected

In what major mode do you see that?  I don't think I can reproduce
what you describe, but maybe that's specific to some mode?

Re: About selecting text with slash

[Angelo Graziosi]

> Il 16 novembre 2019 alle 21.18 Eli Zaretskii  ha scritto:
> 
> In what major mode do you see that?  I don't think I can reproduce
> what you describe, but maybe that's specific to some mode?

I discovered this editing a Makefile (GNUmakefile) but it occurs also in Fundamental, Text, Shell-Script[bash], Markdown.. not in F90, Python, for example.

Re: About selecting text with slash

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 16 2019, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> Other cases would be
>
>   $(B)/def_ghij/   # Both slashes selected
>   $(B)/defghij/    # No slash selected
>
>
> Is this intentional? Really, I do not see the need to have also the slash selected...

Both have symbol syntax, so for the purpose of selection there is no
difference between ?_ and ?/.

Andreas.

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Re: About selecting text with slash

[Stefan Monnier]

> When one double clicks the underscore in this text

If you double click on a word-char you select a word
If you double click on a symbol-char you select a symbol
If you double click on a paren-char you select the sexp

So yes, it's probably expected, tho exactly which chars are considered
word-chars vs symbol-chars vs punctuation ... depends on the major modes
and other such details.


        Stefan