Well, you could triple-click and select the whole line, but that's probably not helpful to you.
The behavior you describe seems to be a Mac standard, because the Finder behaves more or less the same way as BBEdit: for double-clicking purposes, strings separate by periods are treated as separate words, but strings separated by underscores are treated as one big word. I find this frustrating in the Finder, because most of my filenames contain underscores, and I often want to double-click-select just one component of them (almost the opposite of what you're looking for), but I've been unable to find any key combination or trick that would allow me to. At least in the Finder I can hold down the Option key to get a crosshair allowing me to select any part of a string; in BBEdit, holding down Option seems to be used for a different purpose (quick Find on whatever you double-click), but even then BBEdit seems to treat underscores as just regular characters, but treats periods as word delimiters. It would be great if there were some keyboard way to momentarily change these "word delimiter" behaviors, both in BBEdit and in the Finder. Lawrence San Business Writing: Santhology.com Cartoon Stories for Thoughtful People: Sanstudio.com On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Nick Matzke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use BBedit for a lot of R programming. When I'm programming, I always > use underscores in my function and variable names, because I can > double-click on them and get the whole thing. E.g.: > > get_human_DNA > sampled_DNA > > However, most other programmers write their variables like this: > > get.human.DNA > sampled.DNA > > ...when I double-click on these, I only get a selection up to the period. > E.g., just "sampled" or just "DNA". Is there a way to change this > behavior, and get the whole word, including the period? > > I know it's just another click or two to select the whole word manually, > but I'm so used to doing it with a simple double-click, and now a > collaborator has changed everything in our shared project to periods, so > it's driving me nuts. > > Thanks so much if anyone can think of a solution! > > Cheers, > Nick > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
