Re: Word selection boundaries
Re: Word selection boundaries
- Subject: Re: Word selection boundaries
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:22:42 -0700
That worked great!
It seems like something that should be a context-dependent setting, but I'll take it. It's much easier to double-click between periods and drag to select more than it is to single click-drag the bits you want.
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Rick
On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:01 , Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Rick Mann wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to get Xcode to include a period in a word selection boundary within quotes, unless the "word" is numeric? For example, I want to double-click on a part of a key path:
>>
>> [foo valueForKeyPath: @"foo.bar.baz"];
>>
>> and have it only select that part, rather than the whole path, which is what it currently does.
>>
>> But if it's a number:
>>
>> foo.text = @"123.456";
>>
>> It should go ahead and select the whole thing.
>
> There's a system setting which affects this in general. Not certain it affects Xcode, since Xcode may customize text processing. (Not in a position to test at the moment.)
>
> In System Preferences > Language & Text > Text there's a pop-up menu for Word Break. Change it from Standard to English (United States, Computer).
>
> In my testing, I had to restart apps to have that take effect in them.
>
>
>> Unless it's an IP address ;-)
>
> Can't help you there. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>
>
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