Bug 487095

Summary:	Make text highlighting characters based not ‘whole word’ only
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-ktexteditor	Reporter:	drop.521k0
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jonathan.poelen, waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description drop.521k0 2024-05-16 10:05:49 UTC

SUMMARY
Currently, text highlighting in kate is ‘whole word’ only. For usability, I suggest to make it based on characters instead (this is how it is currently done in gedit and in VS Code).

For example, highlighting the word ‘mode’ in: `mode.function`

Highlights also mode in: mode.script() but not: modeNew.script()

I think it would be useful to alter it so that not words are highlighted, but any sequence of characters.

Ref: https://discuss.kde.org/t/text-highlighting-in-kate-is-whole-word-only-make-it-based-on-characters-instead/15622