I used to select words by double clicking or selection with keyboard (shift + control + arrow keys).
This works fine until ST4 and javascript syntax. Only in javascript syntax, the word selection does not work as expected.
Example:
The settings for word_separators is:
“word_separators”: “./\()”’:,.;<>~!@#%^&*|+=[]{}`~?$",
looks like you answered your own question - - is not in the word separators.
Maybe you changed something, looks like it is there by default: https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/pull/2793/files
It’s still weird that JavaScript seems to ignore this settings though. I have confirmed this behavior. That is to say, if you remove - from the list of word separators, JavaScript syntax highlighting causes it to still treat it as one. Maybe that is what they meant?
well it’s overridden in the syntax specific settings, which take precedence over User settings, no?
Good to know. The user settings in syntax specific settings in javascript were completely empty. So the default settings in syntax-specific overwrites the global user-specific settings.
So I need to repeat these settings in every syntax… Great!
It was done in JS/JSX/TS/TSX because the dollar-sign ($) can be part of an identifier. e.g. $foo can be a variable name. You want to be able to double-click on $foo and select the whole identifier, not just the foo part.
I’m not too familiar with JS but I don’t think - can be part of an identifier. If that’s indeed the case then the behavior makes complete sense to me.