Version: 2.1 (using KDE 4.1.3) Compiler: gcc 4.3.2 x86_64 OS: Linux Installed from: Gentoo Packages the profile has the option to declare characters which will be used as word breaks when double clicking text. the default setting defines these as word breaks: :@-./_~?&=%+# which is fine except that none of these appear to work for example, i type this string into my konsole: aaa:bbb@ccc-ddd.eee/fff_ggg~hhh?iii&jjj=kkk%lll+mmm#nnn double clicking anywhere in that string results in the entire string being selected testing with konsole from kde-3.5.10 shows expected behavior: only individual char strings are select (like "hhh" and "iii" rather than the whole thing) i dont think my locale settings should matter, but i'm using LANG=en_US.UTF8
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SVN commit 930286 by hindenburg: Allow double-click selection to check for word boundaries. BUG: 176273 M +11 -3 TerminalDisplay.cpp M +3 -0 TerminalDisplay.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=930286
SVN commit 930327 by hindenburg: Allow double-click selection to check for word boundaries. Backport CCBUG: 176273 M +11 -3 TerminalDisplay.cpp M +3 -0 TerminalDisplay.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=930327
SVN commit 935236 by hindenburg: Revert 930327. Patch actually does word separation. CCBUG: 176273 CCBUG: 186048 M +3 -11 TerminalDisplay.cpp M +0 -3 TerminalDisplay.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=935236
I thought that the entries in the 'mouse interaction' were for chars that were meant to break words. However, if you read the mouse-over comment, it says 'Characters which are considered part of a word when double-clicking to select whole words in the terminal' So in the posters example the result is correct. Unfortunately this patch made it into KDE 4.2.1 before I realized my mistake.
indeed, the behavior was correct. kde-4.x made this situation confusing because it changed the label. in kde-3, the label was explicit (if verbose): "Consider the following characters part of a word when double clicking" other terminals typically define the optional chars as things that *break up* the word, not *join* them. so simply describing it as "word characters" is too ambiguous. perhaps adding "join" in there would be better ? "word join characters" ?
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