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Chet
Chet

Reputation: 19839

Text editor selection settings to include "$" and "-"?

It bugs me, especially when dealing with jQuery, that when I use cmd+d (in Sublime Text or Atom) or double click on a variable, it highlights everything except dollar signs and hyphens.

For example, double clicking on "$hello" will only highlight "hello". Are there any editor settings so that I can select the entire variable including these special characters?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 225

Answers (1)

MattDMo
MattDMo

Reputation: 102852

The setting you are looking for in Sublime is "word_separators". Its default value is

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

Copy and paste this into your user settings, and remove any characters you don't want, such as $ or -. If you only want this to apply to a certain syntax, such as JavaScript, open a JS file, select Preferences -> Settings-More -> Syntax Specific-User, add the setting there, and save the settings file.

Upvotes: 2

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