Howdy, After selecting the first part use Shift-Opt-Right Arrow to continue the selection to include the period, the next word,etc.
Good Luck, Herb Schulz > On Sep 16, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Lawrence San <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]. -- 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].
