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user2638731
user2638731

Reputation: 605

Pyqt: QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor not working as expected

I am using QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor but it isn't working how I want it to, for example if I had:

(text)

it will only give ( OR text OR ) not (text) which is what I want. It also doesn't work with commas, $, #, etc.

Is there any way I can get it to work with those characters?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 565

Answers (1)

user764357
user764357

Reputation:

QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor considers a "word" to be an unbroken set of characters of the same class. I did some searching, and couldn't find how to change this behaviour.

However, it should be easy enough to get the word under the cursor, then progressively widening the selection using QTextCursor.setPostition(), checking if the new character is "acceptable" and then doing that for both sides (left and right).

Upvotes: 2

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