Break highlight words on colons

Bug #1676536 reported by Michael Terry
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Bug Description

When double-clicking on text to highlight it, Terminal decides where the "word" ends and thus the extent of the selected text.

I'd like to propose that it consider colons (':') as word breaks. For example, it's not uncommon for me to use "grep text *" and then highlight a resulting filename. With the current behavior, the filename is not accurately highlighted with a double-click (it includes the colon and/or more text on right of colon).

My gnome-terminal instance does this correctly. I don't *believe* I configured it that way especially. But maybe I did?

The one problem with breaking on colons is that text like http://hello.com/ doesn't break like you might want it to. But I think it's a tradeoff that is worth it.

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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

Interesting thought. Other Linux terminals I tested do not behave like gnome-terminal in that regard.

Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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