[Geany-Devel] wordchars in filetypes.r

[Lex Trotman]

It has never been defined what a "word" is in the context of the filetype
files.  I would have assumed that it meant "identifier" characters, but
since the wordchars setting is commented out in all filetypes files, all
languages must only use C identifier characters (the default) :)

Even CSS which (correctly) has the dash added to the list is commented out.
 Its been that way since Enrico added the dash 5 years ago, so nobody seems
to be too worried.

So Liviu and Thrawn you are pioneering new territory unless someone wants
to define what a "word" actually means.  Note also it can't include any
Unicode chars >0x100 due to Scintilla limitations so its not possible to
make it "right" on newer languages.

Cheers
Lex

On 29 July 2013 09:55, Thrawn <shell_layer-geany at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
> I disagree. Do you really want Ctrl+left and Ctrl+right to skip over dots
> within words as if they were letters? I don't.
>
> What's your reasoning?
>
> Thrawn
>
> ------------------------------
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 11:18 PM AEST Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
> >Dear devels,
> >The filetypes.r currently shipped with Geany contains the following
> >wordchars definition:
> >#wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
> >
> >The correct definition should be the following (dot, underscore, and
> >alpha-numerics):
> >wordchars=_.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
>
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