Vscode: Customisable double click-select behaviour

[d0x2f]

Upon double-clicking, people have different expectations across various languages.
The ability to define custom highlighting rules based on the selected text would simultaneously solve a lot of highlighting issues and increase the flexibility of the editor.

My motivation for bringing this up comes from my frustration with variable selection in PHP.
When double-clicking 'foo' in '$foo->bar()' you will end up selecting '$foo-', my preference would be 'foo'.
I also noticed another issue regarding double clicking white-space where the user would like it to select all connected white-space.
These kinds of rules would be perfectly suited for on the fly user customisation.

[vlad-saling]

I would love to see that as well. Sometimes I need to replace just part of the string. For example a part of class name in CSS like .block--modifier but the default double click selects whole class. Making the behavior customizable would solve this.

[luebken]

May I add a simple use case: The first time I select a string via douple-click I would like the selection to _exclude_ the double quotes.

[jtarbox]

I noticed a change with the recent update with how this behaved. For PHP, could we have this as an editable option or something? As I would personally prefer it grab the preceding '$' character when double-click selecting.

[alexdima]

@jtarbox Yes, please try changing the following setting that now customizes word definitions when doing word operations:

// default:
, "editor.wordSeparators": "`~!@#$%^&*()-=+[{]}\\|;:'\",.<>/?"
// without $:
, "editor.wordSeparators": "`~!@#%^&*()-=+[{]}\\|;:'\",.<>/?"

[alexdima]

Actually, I think the new option editor.wordSeparators that just shipped with 0.10.11 resolves this issue

[jtarbox]

thx, worked perfectly! (still getting used to the text based settings)

[vlad-saling]

Thank you! Works great!

[ctrulove]

This just made my day. Works like a charm.

[RonanCodes]

This is great, I removed the dollar for angular coding.
Is there a way to specify this for different languages?
Or do I need to edit my settings file each time I change language?

[Ben-Conrad]

This is great, I removed '$' from editor.wordSeparators and now I can double click on PowerShell variables and get the entire variable '$var' in my clipboard.

[dmagician]

Fantastic configuration feature. I have immediatelly removed $ from that ;-) I'm used to $variable being selected ;-)

[gustavaum]

These days I came across this issue of double click behavior. I noticed that most of the time I would like to "select the whole string", but it was annoying me. So, what if I double click on a "-" and the behavior would be something like "select an entire string". If I clicked on a word (as we usually do) would I still have the default behavior?