On Sep 16, 2014, at 13:37, Nick Matzke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? ______________________________________________________________________
Hey Nick, I looked in the expert settings and don't find a means to change the double-click behavior, but if you're willing to use a keyboard shortcut then AppleScript can come to your rescue. Put the cursor in or next-to a word and hit your keyboard shortcut. -- Best Regards, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Auth: Christopher Stone <[email protected]> # Task: Select Word # dMod: 2014/09/16 16:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tell application "BBEdit" tell front text window's text set startSel to characterOffset of found object of (find "\\s|^" options {search mode:grep, backwards:true}) set endSel to characterOffset of found object of (find "\\s|$" options {search mode:grep, backwards:false}) # select character startSel if (get contents of character startSel) is in {" ", " ", " ", return} then set startSel to startSel + 1 end if select (characters startSel thru (endSel - 1)) end tell end tell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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].
