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** Changed in: gedit
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Underscore must be a part of the word

Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
  Fix Released
Status in gedit package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gedit

  Any known to me text editor (not a text processor) would treat
  underscore character '_' as a part of the word it's attached to, but
  gedit does not. This causes all word-related actions to be limited to
  only part of the word, e.g.:

  create_if_doesnt_exist=1

  where 'create_if_doesnt_exist' is essentially one word, but double-
  click on 'create' selects only this part of the word. The same applies
  to all other word related operations.

  This is incorrect and undesirable in many cases. There must be at
  least an option to make underscore one of the word chars (like \w in
  regexes).

  NB: This is not a duplicate of
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/413360 !

  The above entry only refers to selecting words with double-click.
  Mine is more general: the problem applies to all operations supposed to affect whole words:
    - Double-click selection
    - Next/Prev Word (Ctrl+Left/Right)
    - Find and Replace with Match entire word only turned on
    - Title Case command from Change Case plugin
    - Spell-checking

  One of the most often recommended solutions is Click_Config plugin at
  http://code.google.com/p/gedit-click-config/

  However I think it's a wrong way of resolving this issue. The problem
  isn't about clicks, it's about determining what is a part of the word,
  and what isn't. Fixing clicks does not root the cause.

  That wouldn't help replacing whole words, for example, nor would it
  act as expected in other cases, eg. when a plugin scans for
  identifiers in the text.

  Originally posted as a question:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+question/120519

  gedit 2.30.3, Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 32-bit.

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