[Geany-Users] [Geany] other small annoying issues in geany editor

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 07/10/2012 10:26, Alessandro Pasotti a écrit :
> 2012/10/5 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:
>> On 5 October 2012 23:00, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Copy $ vars on Linux
>>>
>>> 1. double click on a $ var, like $varname
>>> 2. paste  by pressing the central mouse button
>>> 3. the $ is not pasted but only the "varname" part
>>>
>>
>> Only varname is selected so thats all that is pasted.  This is a function of
>> the definition of what is a word to be selected by the double click.
>>
> 
> 
> Yes, it's clear to me that the $ is not selected, I'm asking why.
> 
> What I mean (and all KDE-based editors behave like that) is that the $
> sign IS part of the (variable) word, and I normally want to copy that
> too.

You need to update the wordchars setting, either in a per-filetype basis
or in filetypes.common.  In non-latest Git version, you also need to
remove $ from whitespace_chars in filetypes.common.