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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote in message news:<84u1ephho4.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>...
> sandipchitale@yahoo.com (Sandip Chitale) writes:
> 
> > I know it may have something to do with syntax table...
> > but I do not how to do it.
> 
> If you double-click on a non-word but symbol-constituent character,
> you'll select the symbol instead of the word.  So in Emacs Lisp mode,
> double-clicking on the minus will select foo-bar, whereas
> double-clicking on the b will select bar only.

Thanks for the answer. Actually I noticed that behaviour recently.

It is kind of inconsistent though. I have to be precise with the
mouse which defeats the purpose of double-click to select word
principle. SO my question is is there some way to modify this
behaviour ? Using advise maybe ? I found out that the
defun mouse-skip-word in mouse.el is responsible for the behaviour.