#503 Word selection for IP addresses
Hi,
It would be great if iTerm could spot 1.2.3.4 as an IP address when
doing word selection and select the entire IP address, rather than just
one of the octets.
I realise that recent versions let you add your own word-selection
boundary, however, that yields different (and unwanted) behaviour from
Terminal.app.
For example, if you add '.' to the part-of-word option in Preferences,
then it will also select the full-stop when clicking on words in
sentences. If I were to double click on the word "sentences" then in
Terminal.app it would select just that word, but in iTerm it will also
select the full-stop at the end.
Terminal.app somehow sees IP addresses as whole-words when doing
word selection on double-click, not sure what the trick is to doing that,
but it would be great if iTerm could emulate that behaviour.
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I don't think iTerm should recognize specific words, such as
IP addresses, otherwise every one would want a similar
feature (e.g. recognize various forms of URLs and so on).
However, instead of (or in addition to) word boundaries,
word regular expressions could be fine and would fit the
needs (depending how it is implemented), and would even
include xterm's nice character class feature (which iTerm
doesn't support). But the specifications must be discussed
first, in particular in the cases where there may be several
matches.
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Do a command-click most of time does the trick, unless this ip address is embedded within some other text without
obvious separators.