Re: [ jEdit-devel ] [ jEdit-commits ] SF.net SVN: jedit:[19370] jEdit/trunk/org/gjt/sp/jedit/search/ SearchAndReplace.java

[Kazutoshi S. <k_s...@f2...>]

Shlomy Reinstein wrote:
> In my opinion, a "whole word" search should be what a user naturally
> thinks of it - a sequence of non-whitespace characters which is
> bounded by whitespace or by the beginning/end of the buffer.

With that definition, the search misses "abc(" in "abc((int)x)".

> I wouldn't specify the behavior as "padding the word with \b" - users
> who know regular expressions well enough for \b do not need this
> "whole-word" feature.

I see the motivation of the feature as a shorthand of it, including
proper quoting (escaping) of the word. This point seems already noted
in patch tracker #2811404.
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2811404

> I think the definition of "word" should have a
> similar behavior to clicking Ctrl+Right/Left Arrow - jumping to
> next/previous word. The way you implement it is another matter.

I think my last proposal will get enough similar behavior.

Since it will be much more complex to implement exact behavior of
Ctrl+Right/Left in search code, I want leave it simple until someone
gives a concrete example of unwanted behavior. This point was
already noted at submission of patch #2842461 (see (1)).
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2842461

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k_satoda