[Geany] Whole word searches with non-word edges

[Jeff Pohlmeyer]

On Jan 28, 2008 7:34 AM, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> What behaviour do the other editors do - switch off word matching
> if the search string contains a non-word character?

If the beginning or ending character of the search phrase is a non-word
character, then it considers that edge to always be a whole word match.
In other words "def." would match in "abc.def.ghi" but not in "ab.cdef.ghi"

You can try grep's  -w switch to get the idea.


 - Jeff