[Geany-devel] R lexer should consider "." (dot) as part of word

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:53:25 +0100
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > I've been investigating filetypes.r to see if it is possible to
> > > > make Geany more friendly (when <ctrl>+right/left, selecting,
> > > > double-click selecting, etc.) toward strings containing
> > > > "." (dot), and I noticed this line:
> > > >
> > > #wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
> > > >
> > > > Changing it to
> > > >
> > > wordchars=._abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
> > > >
> > > > doesn't seem to make a difference, although the documentation
> > > > specifies that "wordchars
> > > > These characters define word boundaries when making selections and
> > > > searching using word matching options."
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas on what's going wrong?

The R wordchars setting including '.' is being overridden by the
default filetypes.common whitespace_chars setting, which includes '.'.

If you remove '.' from whitespace_chars then it seems to work, but that
affects all filetypes word boundary definition:
http://www.geany.org/manual/index.html#id6

There is no per-filetype whitespace_chars setting.

Regards,
Nick