Suggestn:Double-click word boundary selection

Given the sentence,
[The fixed brown frog humps over the underdog]

In NPP, to select the phrase,
[fixed brown frog],
just double-click on [fixed] and move the cursor over to [frog].

That is one of the nice editing features that Eclipse unfortunately lacks. (I have no idea how Eclipse lovers could continue to love Eclipse!) So when working on Eclipsed projects, I have to perform much of my editing outside of Eclipse in NPP or in Netbeans (kudos to NPP, and Netbeans).

This is a suggestion on improving word boundary recognition in NPP.

Given the line,
<target name="build-projects" depends="check-projects-uptodate">

in order to select [check-projects-uptodate]
double click on [check] and move cursor to [uptodate].

However, NPP does not allow me to double-click select the phrase
["check-projects-uptodate"].

Double-click on ["](just before [check]) and move cursor to ["] (just after [uptodate] will select the phrase
[="check-projects-uptodate">].

Therefore, I have to code
<target name = "build-projects" depends = "check-projects-uptodate" >
in order to allow proper phrase selection in NPP.

Is there any means for me to configure NPP word boundary preference?
If not, I am putting in a suggestion that NPP allows user configuration of word boundary preference.

Note:
Actually, word boundary and selection in NPP is already better than that of Microsoft's. Double-clicking [update] and then moving cursor backwards to [check]:
NPP would correctly select [check-projects-uptodate],
but Microsoft products would blindly select [check-projects-].

Hey, I would also love to have the ability to customize the double click selection properties in notepad++… that would be super useful for me.

In fact, what would be really great would be to be able to customize both double and triple clicking.  So, for example if I had the text

check-projects-uptodate

and I double clicked "projects" I'd like to select "projects."  If I triple clicked "projects" I'd like to select "check-projects-uptodate."  And then 4 clicks would select the line.

Thanks!

Double click on first word, and then Shift-Right until the selection is complete. Also, moving the cursor to end and Shift+clicking will do.

Support for triple/quadruple click would have to come from Scintilla, you need to ask this project for the enhancement.

CChris

Hi,
I have a problem with method described by Chris:
when I extend a selection, the selection color changes from red to yellowish and the "internal search" for occurrences of the same string is not working with it. It only works with double-clicked words…
Can I activate it somehow so that Notepad++ will always internally search for selection?

Cheers,

Sorry I wanted to write "from green to yellowish"… :)

I found out that this feature is called "smart highlighting" in settings.  Again, is it possible to activate it for more that double-clicked words?

Nope. You can highlight all instances of some selection using Search -> Mark All -> Using (nth) style, but you do have to tell N++ to work with your selection. If Notepad++ had to search the whole document whenever your selection changes, performance would suffer a bit I guess.

CChris

CChris,
yes the performance is the issue.
I am working with XML with lot of random identifiers and when I double click any of it, all occurrences are highlighted.
The problem is that some of the identifiers contain "-" that is recognized as end of a word by N++.
I didn't notice that performance is decreased in this case so I opt for adding this (optional) feature so that Notepad++ will always search and highlight when I change the selection.

Cheers

You can post a request for such optional enhancement on IdeaTorrent. Note that, in the current state of N++, the search will fail if the selection doesn't fall on a single line. But this could change soon…

CChris